Jane Doe v. Fort Smith School

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

Dr. Benny Gooden and Dr. Patricia Jackson appeal the district court’s order denying their motion for summary judgment in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought by six minor students (the plaintiffs) of the Fort Smith School District. Gooden and Jackson argue they are entitled to qualified immunity because they lacked actual knowledge of and were not deliberately indifferent to any abuse that rose to the level of a constitutional violation committed by school teacher Claudie Lovell. The district court concluded reasonable jurors could find on the evidence that Gooden and…