Richard L. v. Parham CA4/3

FACTS

Plaintiff alleged the following facts in his operative complaint. During the fall of 1997, plaintiff was a sixth grade student at Mariner’s Elementary School, a public school in the Newport Mesa Unified School District. In late 1 All statutory references are to the Government Code unless otherwise stated.

2 1997, Robert M. Snyder, a known child molester that operated a youth chess club called “Chess for Juniors,” requested from defendant, the principal of the school, permission to perform chess presentations in classrooms for the purpose of recruiting children into his club. Snyder had made many similar requests to perform chess presentations at other schools in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, and these requests had been regularly denied. Defendant approved Snyder’s request without any investigation of his 2 background and in violation of Education Code section 51520. Plaintiff was introduced to Snyder when he made a presentation in plaintiff’s sixth grade class at Mariner’s Elementary School during the fall of 1997. Plaintiff expressed an interest in chess, and thus his teacher called plaintiff’s mother and 3 encouraged her to enroll plaintiff in the chess…