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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Stadtmueller partially grants a motion to dismiss from the school district, high school and former school board members in a lawsuit from two former high school students who in the 1980s were sexually abused by a math teacher about whom allegations of such abuse were known among students and faculty. The former students' federal claims alleging 14th Amendment due process and equal protection violations, negligent hiring, training and supervision and civil conspiracy are dismissed with prejudice, in part because they fail to prove municipal policymakers were "constructively aware" of a widespread pattern of abuse such that they are liable for deliberate indifference which created a risk of abuse. Individual and supervisory liability claims against the former board members also fail, as evidence of their actions upon learning of the abuse in 1983 show they did not facilitate or ignore it. Jurisdiction is not exercised over the former students' 11 remaining state-law claims, which are dismissed without prejudice.