{"id":214122,"date":"2026-03-21T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:36:07","slug":"federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-cheerleader-burns-at-evans-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214122\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over cheerleader burns at Evans Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Lubbock Independent School District over an incident in which cheerleaders suffered severe burns during a punishment exercise, calling the teacher\u2019s actions \u201cbrutal and excessive\u201d but ruling the district had already followed state law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In October 2024, court records accused a former cheerleading coach at Evans Middle School of making a group of students perform \u201cbear crawls\u201d on a school track as punishment for misbehaving. The track was so hot from the late summer heat that the girls suffered second and third degree burns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The school put the teacher on administrative leave and released the instructor a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Five parents sued the district in federal court, claiming it failed to train and supervise the staff member and violated the students\u2019 civil rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge rules district remedied the issue<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge Wesley Hendrix threw out the lawsuit, finding the district had already followed state law and remedied the issue. He also decided the parents\u2019 request for the district to pay back medical bills does not fall under civil rights law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hendrix noted that without any injury-in-fact, federal law cannot do anything else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge Hendrix dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the parents cannot sue again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Lubbock Independent School District over an incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-214122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}