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Crystal Ayon, Mother of M. R. A., a Minor Child v. Austin Independent School District
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 24-50267 · judgment February 20, 2025
Certiorari denied · June 23, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
- 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.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Randall Lee Kallinen
Kallinen Law, PLLC
For respondent
Jonathan Griffin Brush
Rogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P.
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jun 23 2025Petition DENIED.
- Jun 03 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2025.
- May 27 2025Waiver of right of respondent Austin Independent School District to respond filed.
- May 21 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 26, 2025)