Fifth Circuit Affirms Magistrate Judge’s Dismal of Parents’ Constitutional Law Claim in Concussion Case

The panel of judges from the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a magistrate judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought the parents of a high school football player, who claimed the school district and several individual defendants violated their son’s Constitutional rights when they allowed him to continuing playing football, which led to multiple concussions. In so ruling, the panel determined that the defendants did not act with “deliberate indifference by allowing the stud