NAME THAT CASE
This case involves two Arkansas studetns who were unlawfully suspended without due process...
Wood v. Strickland, 420 U.S. 308 (1975)
In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, _______ were used to sybolize the studetns views of the Vietnam war...
If a parent was angry to action at a teacher that showed malice, fraud, or reckless disregard for their safety, they displayed this type of damages...
punitive damages
Under Section 1983, a local government is not... this type of liable... for the constitutional torts of its agents...
vicariously liable
When a teacher is held liable and legally responsible for the safety/wellbeing of students... they owe what to those students?
duty of care
In this case, highschool senior Matthew Fraser wrote a provocative speech that got his suspeneded and overruled in the supreme court...
Bethel School District v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675
In the case Carey v. Piphus, 435 U.S. 247 (1978), two students were suspended ___ days without due process...
twenty
If a school coach calls a student a name in front of their class to discipline them... the student may feel what type of humiliation?
personal humiliation
Courts can award many types of damages, the most common being what?
compensatory damages
Honesty, fairness, and this other standard should be used between two parties...
good faith standard
This case from 2002 involves the NCLB act, but doens't help the teacher who injured student Eric Webb...
Webb v. Clark County School District,
125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 47 (2009)
In the case NIEUWENDORP v. AMERICAN FAMILY INS. CO., Court of Appeals of Wisconsin. 181 Wis.2d 259, the ______ were liable for the teacher sustaining a neck injury from a student...
parents
The party that wins the case or obtains any relief from the lawsuit is this type of party...
prevailing party
Usually a symbolic award... a plaintiff that has not been able to show actual damage but has still been wronged by the defendant can receive these...
nominal damages
In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, if the plaintiff was ruled not in favor and had to remove their armbands, this would be an example of...
impairment of representation
This case involves young Adria who was injured by another student... though the school had already known about the threats, they were sued but found not liable...
Wilson v Vestal Cent. School Dist.
2006 NY Slip Op 08300 [34 AD3d 999]
in the case, Rubino v. City of New York, et al., 114 A.D.2d 243, 498 N.Y.S.2d 831 (1st Dept. 1986), the school board was found _____ for not providin neccisary infomration to an injured teacher...
negligent
If a teacher is found guilty and has to pay any added damages, those added damages are known as what?
punitive damages
An example of this would be you being able to recover 60% of the damages instead of the full 100% since you helped with the cause...
comparative negligence
Any damage caused that is non-physical could be know as this...
mental anguish & suffering
Malcolm v. Board of Education of the Honeoyefalls-Lima Central School District et al
6:2008cv06577 December 22, 2008
In the case Spears v. Jefferson Parish Public School System, No. 2:2012cv01991, a teacher was found liable for _____ injuries after pretending that he had hung two of a students friends... costing the school district over $117,000 indamages...
emotional
In the case, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, Des Moines were the defendants whereas Tinker was the...
plaintiff
If a student sues a school for having slippery floors, yet the student did not pay attention to the wet sign warning, that student committed this...
contributory negligence
Name the three main damages awarded in court...