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072651P.pdf 05/23/2008 Daniel Pucket v. Hot Springs School District
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-2651
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Riley and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. In action by plaintiffs contending the school
district's decision not to provide transportation to parochial students
violated their civil rights, the district did not err in finding the plaintiffs
lacked standing to challenge the refusal to provide transportation before
March 3, 2003 as the district did not have statutory authority to bus such
students prior to that date and, as a result, the district's alleged
discrimination could not have caused their injury; with respect to the
plaintiff's claim that failure to provide services after that date
discriminated against them, plaintiffs lacked standing to raise the claim
because they failed to ask the district to resume busing under the new
legislation which allowed, but did not require, the district to provide such
services.