Court Opinion

ID: 9634173
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 12:53:24.783383+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:43:41.718122
License: Public Domain

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I agree with the majority opinion’s thorough analysis and agree that the district court should have granted defendant WCBE’s motion to dismiss but write separately to emphasize that imposing an in-school suspension, even of short duration, without procedural safeguards could conceivably violate due process under different facts. The Tennessee statutes apparently contemplate that students receiving in-school suspensions complete academic requirements. The complaint fails to allege any educational detriment suffered by Victoria Laney that could amount to deprivation of a property interest or any repu-tational harm that might amount to deprivation of a liberty interest. There is no allegation of any sort of loss that could be categorized as more than de minimis. Here, the assertions of a constitutional violation are insufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss.