Thomas v. Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp.

ORDER

This appeal concerns the measures taken by a public elementary school’s teachers, counselors, principal, and nurse in response to a student’s claims that her mother was abusing her. The mother, Debra Thomas, seeks relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, contending that school officials deprived her of her constitutional rights to equal protection under the law by falsely reporting that she had abused her daughter, Marteisha Mosley. Thomas further contends that, in meeting regularly with Marteisha without Thomas’s knowledge, a school counselor deprived Thomas of her substantive due process right…