What is the name of the case where a teacher was charged after she took her students to a baseball field where one of her students got injured.
100
An award given to compensate injured persons for their actual losses.
What is compensatory damages?
100
Gibbons vs. Orleans Parish
What is the name of the case where a school board was found liable when a student was injured on the playground when she swung onto a tether ball pole and slid over a screw that was protruding?
100
Proximate cause
What is an event that led up to and was the cause of an injury.
100
Negligent hiring is the hiring of somebody with a background or reputation of not being able to do what the employer is asking of them.
What is negligent hiring?
200
Toller vs. Plainfield School District #202
What is the name of the case where neither the teacher or the school district was liable for a injury attained in a required PE class?
200
The winner of a law suit.
What is a prevailing party?
200
Vernon vs. Bethel School District
What is the name of the case where a notion of educational malpractice was rejected in a case where a special education student was allegedly mistreated by staff?
200
Nominal Damages
What is a small award where the plaintiff has been wronged but has not been able to show any actual damage.
200
Sovereign immunity prohibits individuals from suing states under the ADEA.
What is Sovereign immunity?
300
The Mancha Case
What is the name of the case where the teacher was charged with negligence after a student was beat while on a field trip?
300
What is the word that describes the degree of care a teacher of ordinary prudence would have used under like circumstances?
What is reasonable care?
300
Eisel vs. Board of Education of Montgomery County
What is the name of the case where duty of care was applied to hold two high school counselors liable for failing to attempt to prevent a student's suicide?
300
Comparative negligence
The factor allowing negligent students to recover damages has been a trend toward the adoption of what?
300
Written defamation or published written statements that injure a person's reputation.
What is the definition of liable?
400
Bartell vs. Field Museum of Natural History
What is the name of the case where a school district was not held liable when a student was fatally injured playing a dangerous game at an elementary school playground after school hours?
400
Duty of care states that teachers/counselors/principals need to do everything they absolutely can to prevent injury.
What is duty of care?
400
Jenkins ex rel Jerkins vs. Anderson
What is the name of the case where the district was found guilty of not implementing a proper dismissal policy?
400
Personal Humiliation
What is the act of being humiliated?
400
Section 1983 is the acknowledgment that local governmental units such as school districts are persons and can be held liable.
What is Section 1983?
500
Wood vs. Strickland
What is the name of the case where two students were unlawful suspended without due process in Arkansas?
500
The idea that teachers should be held liable for negligent teaching that injures a student intellectually or psychologically.
What is educational malpractice
500
Wilson vs. Vestal Central School District
What is the name of the case where the court sent the question of foreseeability to the jury after multiple threats had been made before the injury?
500
Punitive Damages
what is a award where defendants have shown malice, fraud, or reckless disregard for an injured person's safety or constitutional rights?