173602P.pdf   08/01/2019  K.W.P.  v.  Kansas City Public Schools
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3602
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Benton and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - civil rights. In an action against a Kansas City police 
   officer and a grade school principal alleging seven-year-old KWP's rights 
   were violated when the officer handcuffed the child for about 20 minutes, 
   construing the facts in the light most favorable to KWP, neither the 
   officer nor the principal violated the child's right to be free from 
   unreasonable seizure and excessive force; the child had violently resisted 
   efforts to calm and control him and it was not unreasonable to cuff the 
   child and then leave him in handcuffs in the principal's office for 15 
   minutes - until his parent arrived - to keep the child from leaving and 
   posing harm to himself; the principal's failure to intervene and have the 
   officer removed the cuffs was reasonable in light of her previous 
   experiences with KWP in which he had attempted to leave the schoolyard 
   after the principal instructed him not to hit another student and had 
   actively resisted her attempt to control him; even if the reasonableness 
   of the officer's and principal's actions was questionable, KWP cannot show 
   that a reasonable official would have been on notice that their conduct 
   violated a clearly established right; the district court erred, therefore, 
   in denying the police officer's and the principal's motions for summary 
   judgment based on qualified immunity; because there was no violation of 
   KWP's constitutional rights, the district court necessarily erred in 
   denying the school system's motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's 
   municipal liability claim for failure to train and supervise.