Boyd v. Smith

MEMORANDUM

BEAMER, Chief Judge.

This action is brought on behalf of plaintiff and an alleged class of other students in the Gary Public Schools who have been, or may be, suspended or excluded from school and school activities for more than five days without adequate notice, opportunity for a hearing and other procedures conforming to the procedural and substantive requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution and applicable state statutes. Relief is sought pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and…