737 results for 'cat:"Education"'.
J. Honeywell grants a school board dismissal of disability discrimination claims brought by an autistic student as an impermissible shotgun pleading. However, the student and his mother may file a third and final complaint, which they may file anonymously.
Court: USDC Middle District of Florida, Judge: Honeywell, Filed On: August 26, 2024, Case #: 8:23cv1772, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities - Other - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Ada / Rehabilitation Act, education
J. Gottschall grants a study abroad contractor’s motion to dismiss a university student’s proposed class action to partially recover her tuition and other costs, after the Covid-19 pandemic cut her study abroad trip to Vienna short. The court finds the student has standing to sue, but she cannot recover any costs due to a clause in her agreement with the contractor, which she allowed broad control over the trip’s itinerary.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Gottschall, Filed On: August 26, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv4917, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: education, Class Action, Contract
J. D’Agostino finds in favor of SUNY Upstate Medical University on race discrimination claims brought by a Latino-identifying research professor employed at its psychiatry department. Several of her claims are untimely, and the remainder of her claims fail to prove she suffered adverse employment actions, including a dramatic reduction in her salary, for either discriminatory and retaliatory reasons.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: D’Agostino, Filed On: August 26, 2024, Case #: 5:21cv1338, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Chen rules in favor of the New York City Education Department on a 50-year-old Black former school teacher’s race, color, ethnicity and national origin discrimination claims, but preserves for trial her claims for age and disability-based disparate treatment, failure to accommodate and retaliation. The court leaves it to a jury to decide whether she was subjected to a litany of adverse employment actions due to her age and because of injuries she sustained after getting attacked by a student’s parent, for which she sought workers’ compensation benefits. Notably, she alleges the school’s actions came shortly after she was told the school was looking for somebody “a little more young” to better fit with its plans for a new Pre-K program.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Chen, Filed On: August 26, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv1115, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, Employment Retaliation, Workers' Compensation
J. Leeson partially denied Franklin and Marshall College’s motion for summary judgment in a student’s misconduct dispute. The student claims the school violated its contract with him and violated Title IX rules regarding gender discrimination when it suspended him after he was arrested on criminal charges related to allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old, and he says the college failed to properly investigate his claims that a professor was sexually harassing him. The student failed to provide enough evidence to show that the decisions were affected by gender bias; though the college acted quickly to deal with the abuse charge, the student has sufficiently challenged the fairness of his investigation to survive summary judgment.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Leeson, Filed On: August 26, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv943, NOS: Education - Civil Rights, Categories: education, Evidence, Contract
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J. Lane finds that the trial court improperly denied a teacher’s defamation claim against a preparatory school principal after an exit interview, even though the teacher’s complaint contained sufficient assertions and preliminary objections in a demurrer. The jury received adequate instruction on the presumption of at-will employment. This case is remanded for further proceedings on the defamation claim. Affirmed in part. Reversed in part.
Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court, Judge: Lane, Filed On: August 23, 2024, Case #: J-A14037-24, Categories: education, Employment, Defamation
J. Murguia finds that the district court properly entered summary judgment in favor of several Idaho public school districts in an action brought by parents of Idaho school children who seek reimbursement for fees associated with educational and extracurricular opportunities within Idaho public school districts. The parents claimed that the fees were improper because the Idaho Constitution requires that the Idaho Legislature provide “free common schools” and that the payment of those fees was a taking of property without due process in violation of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The money paid to satisfy fees related to "supplemental educational services" is not properly the subject of a Takings Clause claim. Affirmed.
Court: 9th Circuit, Judge: Murguia, Filed On: August 23, 2024, Case #: 23-35438, Categories: Constitution, education
J. Walker finds that the circuit court did not err in granting in part a tenant's motion to dismiss in a subrogation action. The insurer “cannot overcome a core tenet of the equitable remedy of subrogation.” Affirmed.
Court: Illinois Appellate Court, Judge: Walker, Filed On: August 23, 2024, Case #: 230833, Categories: education
J. Harpool approves a settlement agreement. A grandfather sued a Christian boarding school and its director on behalf of his minor grandson, claiming his grandson was physically and emotionally abused by staff at the school. The parties agree to settle the case for $210,000.
Court: USDC Western District of Missouri, Judge: Harpool, Filed On: August 22, 2024, Case #: 6:24cv3037, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: education, Settlements, Assault
J. Rufe grants in part the University of Pennsylvania’s motion to dismiss a South Asian psychology student’s civil rights lawsuit in which she alleges she was subjected to a one-and-a-half year suspension for an academic integrity violation because a chemistry professor discriminated against her because of her race. The student failed to provide support that the university suspended her without taking her prior “spotless disciplinary record” into account and breached the parties contract by doing so.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Rufe, Filed On: August 22, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv2689, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, education, Contract
J. Laplante denies in part the trustees of Dartmouth College’s motion to dismiss claims of discrimination based on national origin or religion brought against them by an employee who they denied certain compensation and research funding. The trustees did not give the employee dedicated lab space or start-up funding like her peers did during her first three years of being on the tenure track, and it’s reasonable to believe discovery may show she was discriminated against.
Court: USDC New Hampshire, Judge: Laplante, Filed On: August 20, 2024, Case #: 1:24cv70, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: education, Employment, Employment Discrimination
J. Brown finds that the district court properly entered a judgment that stopped the Archdiocese's schools from asking the prospective students about their disabilities before admission. The prospective students alleged that the Archdiocese’s Associate Superintendent for Education Formation and Accessibility's affidavit, where she stated, "a school cannot determine whether they can meet a child’s educational needs if they do not know what those needs are,” support that the additional requirements are evidence of disparate treatment to prospective students with disabilities. However, the amount of security for the injunction to take effect is reduced from $30,000 to $5,000 because there has been no evidence of costs the Archdiocese has suffered due to not asking prospective students about their potential disabilities. Affirmed in part.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Brown, Filed On: August 20, 2024, Case #: 2024-CA-0008, Categories: education, Injunction
J. Emfinger finds the lower court properly found for a school on a mother's negligence action arising from the stabbing of her son. Evidence indicates the coach never left the gym during basketball practice and was unaware one of the players had a knife or that there was any animosity between that player and the victim. Therefore, he did not act unreasonably and the school did not breach any duty of care to the victim. Affirmed.
Court: Mississippi Court Of Appeals, Judge: Emfinger, Filed On: August 20, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-418, Categories: education, Evidence, Negligence
J. Oliver finds that a police chief, a commanding officer and a board of education did not harm two women when the department failed to investigate a school officer who distributed nude images of the women on social media. The department’s training of staff and the board of education's policy guidance were adequate. The claims related to the department leaders and board of education are dismissed.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Oliver, Filed On: August 20, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv695, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, education, Immunity
J. Anello dismisses all civil rights claims against Sherman Heights Elementary from a couple who says they were harassed after they began recording the comings and goings of school children to document the unsafe traffic conditions created by the school. The couple's Title IX claims fail because they have no participation in the school or its programs and their civil rights claims fail for not showing how the school chilled their free speech.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Anello, Filed On: August 20, 2024, Case #: 3:24cv359, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, education
J. Murphy finds that the district court properly upheld a decision of an administrative law judge (ALJ), who concluded that the Kyrene Elementary School District No. 28 did not violate the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in a case in which a student alleged that the District failed to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE). Affirmed.
Court: 9th Circuit, Judge: Murphy , Filed On: August 20, 2024, Case #: 22-16816, Categories: education
J. Godbey partially grants Southern Methodist University’s motion for legal costs. Nine former members of SMU’s women-only rowing team sued the university, claiming it discriminated against female athletes in how it allocated funding and resources and that inferior resources and incompetent coaching caused them to experience the same type of hip injury. The court previously granted summary judgment for SMU on all but some of one of the rowers’ claims. Now, SMU seeks to recover legal costs for the dismissed claims. SMU is entitled to some of its requested legal costs, but for others it has not adequately shown the costs were for things necessary for the case.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Godbey, Filed On: August 20, 2024, Case #: 3:18cv141, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, education
J. Merle denies a school music instructor’s motion for a preliminary injunction to restrain the Long Island school district from moving forward with its disciplinary hearing against him. His employment retaliation complaint alleges a scheme to remove him from his job due to complaints he made over the types of chemicals were being used to disinfect school property during the Covid-19 pandemic, which was causing him to suffer skin rashes, irritation in his eyes and excessive coughing. Notably, he fails to show the hearing is retaliatory in nature; a damning amount of evidence shows the disciplinary hearing is in fact based on numerous reports from other teachers of aggressive behavior, to the point some teachers felt unsafe working around him.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Merle, Filed On: August 19, 2024, Case #: 2:24cv1002, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, Employment Retaliation
J. Long grants a school’s motion to dismiss employment and disability claims made by one of their former employees. The employee, acting pro se, failed to bring sufficient proof that her depression could be considered disabling. And even if it would be disabling, nothing she alleged directly linked her depression to the school’s decision to terminate her employment.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Long, Filed On: August 19, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv3505, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, education, Employment Discrimination
J. Fish accepts the recommendations of a magistrate judge. A former student is suing the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, claiming he worked in a lab and was discriminated against and denied accommodations for his disability. This case should be dismissed, as this court already rejected the former student’s claims in a prior lawsuit.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Fish, Filed On: August 19, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv2705, NOS: Family and Medical Leave Act - Labor, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, education, Health Care
J. Crone grants summary judgment to the school district in the former dance group sponsor's suit relating to allegations she mishandled booster club funds, which led to criminal charges against her that were later dismissed. The former sponsor abandoned the state law claims against the school district, and there is insufficient evidence to support her Section 1983 claims.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Crone, Filed On: August 19, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv392, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Constitution, education, Employment