Legal Opinion
Gonzalez v. Ysleta Independent School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 21, 1993No. 90-8725PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
This appeal raises difficult questions of law in a difficult, tragic setting. Jessica Gonzalez was sexually molested by Andres Mares, her first grade teacher, while attending one of the elementary schools within the Ysleta Independent School District. After Jessica’s parents, Gloria and Victor Gonzalez, discovered that the YISD Board of Trustees had elected to keep Mares in the classroom in the face of similar allegations of sexual abuse two years earlier, they brought this § 1983 action against the school district in the U.S. District Court for the…
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