An'Tonique James Missouri Cases

An'Tonique James, mother of a minor fatally shot outside Central High School, sued individual Kansas City Public School officials, the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners (BOPC), and two Kansas City Police Department officers for wrongful death. The circuit court granted summary judgment or judgment on the pleadings to all defendants, concluding they were entitled to sovereign or official immunity. The appellate court affirmed, holding that James failed to prove the BOPC waived sovereign immunity and that the individual defendants' actions were discretionary, not ministerial, and lacked evidence of bad faith or malice, thus entitling them to official immunity.