[DOWNLOAD] "Dunn v. Fairfield Community High School District No. 225" by Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Dunn v. Fairfield Community High School District No. 225
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 15, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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Argued September 17, 1998 Shaun Dunn and Bill McCullough were both budding musicians who participated as guitar players in the high school band program at Fairfield Community High School, operated by the defendant Fairfield Community High School District No. 225. (We refer to them both as ""Fairfield,"" as there is no distinction important to this appeal.) Fairfield prohibited its band members from departing from the planned musical program during band performances, and it specifically forbade guitar solos during the performances. In direct defiance of those rules and their teacher's explicit orders, Dunn and McCullough (along with two other students) played two unauthorized guitar pieces (instrumentals, with no words) at a February 10, 1995, band program. In due course, the discipline they received for this infraction caused them both to receive an ""F"" for the band course, and that ""F"" prevented McCullough from graduating with honors. This lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. sec.sec. 1983 and 1988 followed. Dunn and McCullough have now appealed from the district court's decision to grant summary judgment for Fairfield. While as a practical matter the school may have overreacted to the spectacle of two young musicians playing the ""wrong"" pieces, we conclude that its actions violated no right cognizable under the federal civil rights statutes, and we therefore affirm the district court. I.