A Federal jury after a three day trial found no liability on the part of former Livingston Parish Superintendent, Randy Pope regarding claims made by the plaintiff in the lawsuit, Bobby W. Swindle, Jr., et al. v. LPSB, et al., Civil Action No. 06-837-D-M1 (M.D. La.).
The plaintiff claimed that Superintendent Pope did not afford lawfully sufficient procedural due process that the mother of the plaintiff claimed to be entitled to before denying alternative education to her daughter during the term of her expulsion. At the time in October, 2005, the Livingston School Board had a policy denying alternative education for certain specified offenses. The plaintiff's mother never appealed the expulsion decision and instead she filed the lawsuit in Federal Court claiming violations of her daughter's civil rights since she was not placed in alternative education and lost a year of school. At the time the daughter was 13 years old. The jury did not agree to any of the plaintiff's claims by its finding of no liability as to the actions of Superintendent Pope.
