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101241P.pdf 04/11/2011 Taci Mathers v. Patricia Wright
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-1241
and No: 10-1242
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Hansen and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. Order in question dismissed some, but not all,
of the substantive due process and First Amendment claims alleged in the
complaint and was not final for purposes of appeal; plaintiff has pleaded
her class-of-one claim with sufficient detail to withstand defendant
teacher's 12(b)(6) and 8(a)(2) motion; the equal protection right at issue
was clearly established under pre-existing law; as a result, the teacher was
not entitled to qualified immunity on claims she singled out the student in
question and refused to teach her and otherwise mistreated her as the
conduct exceeded the scope of professionally acceptable choices and was
not discretionary.