No. 24-1201

Crystal Ayon, Mother of M. R. A., a Minor Child v. Austin Independent School District

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-05-27
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: bus-transportation deliberate-indifference institutional-liability school-safety sexual-assault video-surveillance
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess FourthAmendment Privacy
Latest Conference: 2025-06-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a public school district acts with deliberate indifference by installing bus cameras but not live monitoring them after a prior sexual assault incident

Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a public school district acts with deliberate indifference to its students being assaulted inside its school buses after it installed video cameras in all district buses in response to a prior incident of a student being sexually assaulted by a bus driver, but intentionally enacts a policy in which (i) the video cameras at its campuses and facilities are continually live monitored, but (ii) the bus cameras are not monitored and the footage is only reviewed unless and until a report of misconduct is made, thereby causing the sexual assault of M.R.A. by a different bus driver, who testified that he would not have committed the assaults had he known someone was watching the cameras.

Docket Entries

2025-06-23
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2025.
2025-05-27
Waiver of Austin Independent School District of right to respond submitted.
2025-05-27
Waiver of right of respondent Austin Independent School District to respond filed.
2025-05-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 26, 2025)

Attorneys

Austin Independent School District
Jonathan Griffin BrushRogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P., Respondent
Jonathan Griffin BrushRogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P., Respondent
Clay Thomas GroverRogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P., Respondent
Clay Thomas GroverRogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P., Respondent
Kyle StoneRogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P., Respondent
Kyle StoneRogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P., Respondent
Crystal Ayon
Randall Lee KallinenKallinen Law, PLLC, Petitioner
Randall Lee KallinenKallinen Law, PLLC, Petitioner