# Baker v. Board of Educ. of Clay County, Ky.

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · March 6, 1996 · 78 F.3d 584

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## Case

- **Full name:** Donnie Lee Baker Ruth Baker, Coadministrators of the Estate of Donald Scott Baker, Deceased Donnie Lee Baker, Individually Ruth Baker, Individually v. Board of Education of Clay County, Kentucky W.J. Watkins Leewood Cornett James Gibson, Jr. Charles D. Keith Jack Ward, Individually and in Their Capacities as Members of the Board of Education of Clay County, Kentucky Charles White, Individually and as Superintendent of the Clay County School District Caleb Collins, Individually and as Principal of Paces Creek Elementary School Charlotte H. Smith
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** March 6, 1996
- **Citations:** 78 F.3d 584; 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 10263; 1996 WL 99387
- **Precedential status:** Unpublished
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that “compulsory school attendance laws do not create [the] special relationship between the students and the public school authority” necessary to support a custodial exception claim (citing cases)

## Opinion text

78 F.3d 584
108 Ed. Law Rep. 31
NOTICE: Sixth Circuit Rule 24(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Sixth Circuit.
Donnie Lee BAKER; Ruth Baker, Coadministrators of the
Estate of Donald Scott Baker, Deceased; Donnie
Lee Baker, Individually; Ruth Baker,
Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CLAY COUNTY, KENTUCKY; W.J. Watkins;
Leewood Cornett; James Gibson, Jr.; Charles D. Keith;
Jack Ward, Individually and in their capacities as members
of the Board of Education of Clay County, Kentucky; Charles
White, Individually and as Superintendent of the Clay County
School District; Caleb Collins, Individually and as
Principal of Paces Creek Elementary School; Charlotte H.
Smith, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 95-5005.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
March 6, 1996.
Before: ENGEL, KENNEDY and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
1
Plaintiffs, the parents and coadministrators of the estate of Donald Scott Baker ("Scotty"), appeal from the order of the district court granting summary judgment to defendants in this action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . The district court rejected plaintiffs' theory that the state's compulsory attendance laws created a custodial relationship between a student and the public school system so as to create a constitutional duty of protection from private actors. The lower court also rejected plaintiffs' alternative theory that defendants created a risk of harm and made Scotty more vulnerable to it. Plaintiffs challenge these rulings on appeal.
2
After studying the parties briefs, the record, and relevant law, and considering the arguments of the parties, we are satisfied that the district court correctly decided that plaintiffs had failed to establish § 1983 liability against the defendants. Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED for the reasons stated in its Opinion and Order dated December 8, 1994, and published at 871 F.Supp. 930 (E.D.Ky.1994).

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