United States Fifth Circuit

42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims brought by the mother of a student seriously injured during football practice failed to demonstrate that the harm was caused by state action, or to come forward with a sufficient claim from which a reasonable juror could infer racial animus by a state official.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/07/2004
• Published 01/07/2004

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STEWART and PRADO Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr. (argued), Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Mims (argued), Daniel, Coker, Horton & Bell, Oxford, MS, Vardaman Kimball Smith, III (argued), Bryan, Nelson, Randolph & Weathers, Hattiesburg, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.