Legal Opinion
Fields v. Palmdale School District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 2, 2005No. 03-56499PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge.
When parents of schoolchildren in Palmdale, California learned from their sons and daughters that they had been questioned in their public elementary school about sexual topics such as the frequency of “thinking about having sex” and “thinking about touching other peoples’ private parts,” some of them exercised their constitutional right to take their grievance to the courts. The questioning was part of a survey the Palmdale School District was conducting regarding psychological barriers to learning. The parents brought an action in district court against the School…
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