202161P.pdf   03/18/2021  L.G.  v.  Keisha Edwards
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-2161
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Stras, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiff, a minor high school student, who 
   defendant, the school resource officer, escorted to an office for 
   questioning by police officers, alleged defendant violated her civil 
   rights by seizing her without probable cause; the district court denied 
   defendant's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity and 
   defendant appeals. Held: plaintiff failed to establish that defendant's 
   conduct violated a clearly established constitutional or statutory right; 
   two facts distinguish this case from those where the court has found a 
   violation; first, the defendant's involvement in the alleged seizure was 
   minimal and ministerial and, second, the incident occurred in a public 
   school setting where it would not necessarily be clear at what point a 
   student has been unreasonably seized for constitutional purposes; given 
   these factors, existing circuit precedents would not have alerted a 
   reasonable officer in defendant's position that she was violating 
   plaintiff's constitutional rights by escorting her to a room containing 
   two police officers and closing the door; nor was there a robust consensus 
   of persuasive authority that created a clearly established right; nor is 
   the kind of case where a general constitutional right applies with obvious 
   clarity; reversed and remanded with directions to dismiss plaintiff's 
   Section 1983 claims against defendant.