Trump introduced January Littlejohn at congressional address, called school district’s treatment of her daughter “child abuse.” Full appeals court called upon to fix panel’s Frankenstein ruling on behavior that “shocks the conscience.”
(Greg Piper – Just the News) Does it “shock the conscience” for a Florida school district to withhold a 13-year-old’s gender transition from her parents and treat her as a boy even after her parents object?
A divided panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set off alarm bells in March by ruling the state’s Leon County School Board’s behavior was not shocking under a 1998 Supreme Court precedent that limited accountability for official misconduct that causes serious harm – in that case, police and high-speech chases that kill fleeing suspects.
The 169-page behemoth – 143 pages devoted to concurrences and a dissent – prevented the girls’ parents from seeking damages for violation of their substantive due-process rights, even as the judicial majority fought over the legitimacy of the legal doctrine itself and “assume[d] without deciding” the parents had invoked “fundamental” rights.
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