Damages
Negligence
Case Details
Court Facts
Terms
100
When damages are given to a defendant as a punishment, what kind of damages are these?
What is punitive damages?
100
Medlin v. Bass, 398 S.E. 2d 460 (N.C. 1990) A school hired a principle that a student accused of assault, without knowledge of those tendencies. Student's parents accused the school of?
What is negligent hiring?
100
The Spears v. Jefferson Parish Sch. Bd. (1994) court case dealt with a student suffering from what?
What is mental anguish?
100
What is it called when someone is held legally responsible for something?
What is liable?
100
If you are stripped of your pride you are?
What is personally humiliated?
200
When a small amount of money is given to the plaintiff to show they were right but that they didn't suffer any major losses, what type of damages are these?
What is nominal damages?
200
After Jodeen Miles (Miles v. Sch. Dist. No. 138 of Cheyenne County (2007)), grabbed a piece of wood out of an operating machine and severed two of her fingers during her Shop II class, her parents sued and the courts said that this type of negligence was involved.
What is contributory negligence?
200
In the court case, Sheehan v. St Peter's Catholic Sch., 188 N.W. 2d 868 (Minn. 1971) , Margaret Sheehan was hurt after her teacher left her and her classmates unattended during recess. What did that teacher fail show to her students?
What is reasonable care?
200
When someone wins a lawsuit, what are they called?
What is prevailing party?
200
If a student is in a physical education class and they drop a weight on their foot and break it, this is the event that is related to the injury that caused the injury. What is the correct term for this?
What is proximate cause?
300
In Spears v. Jefferson Parish Sch. Bd. (1994), the student's parents received over $100,000 in damages to cover the psychotherapy that their child had to go through because of the mental anguish the student suffered regarding the teachers actions. What type of damages does this refer to?
What is compensatory damages?
300
In the Rollins v. Concordia Parish Sch. Bd.(1985) case, the courts deemed this type of negligence appropriate and both parties were held liable.
What is comparative negligence?
300
In the court case _______________, a foreign language teacher was granted the right to sue the state of Maryland based on age discrimination for a teaching job. The Board said they had sovereign immunity because it is an arm of the state.
What is Zimmer-Rubert v. Board of Educ. of Baltimore County, 409 Md. 200 (2009)?
300
Teachers have a legal obligations to care for their students in situations that someone could get hurt, what is this called?
What is duty of care?
300
There are many statutes and doctrines that give immunity from tort-based claims with the government. What do these refer to?
What is governmental immunity?
400
When two Chicago students were suspended for 20 days without due process, their lawyers said they should receive damages because they were deprived of their constitutional rights. Court disagreed by saying that no injury occurred nor did the school intentionally deprive the students of their rights so the students were awarded nominal damages. What court case was this?
What is Carey v. Piphus 435 U.S.427 (1978)?
400
When a 12 year old student was injured while playing a dangerous skateboarding game after school hours, the parents sued for negligent supervision. Courts ruled that schools don't have to supervise the grounds at all times and supervision is limited to school related or encourages functions. What case was this?
What is Bartell v Palos Verdes Peninsula Sch. Dist., 147 Cal. Rptr. 898 (App. 1972)?
400
In the Wood v. Strickland, 420 U.S. 308 (1975) case, two students in an Arkansas school were unlawfully suspended without due process. The Supreme Court ruled that school officials intentionally deprived students of constitutional rights. What liability term did this involve?
What is Section 1983?
400
When someone is acting with sincerity without the intention to hurt or defraud anyone, what are they acting with?
What is good faith standard?
500
In a court case regarding Puerto Rican college students, they sued for damages after being suspended for many days. No injury was proven and courts were not shown any evidence that the school was harassing the students or that the school was acting in bad faith. The students were only awarded nominal damages in this case. What case was it?
What is Perez v Rodriguez Bou 575 F.2d 21 (1st Cir. 1978)?
500
When a young boy was beaten during a field trip by other boys that were not a part of the school function, his parents tried to sue the school was they were unsuccessful. The court ruled that the teacher, nor the school would be held liable because no negligence was found and they couldn't have predicted that would happen. What was this case?
What is Mancha v. Field Museum of Natural History, 283 N.E. 2d 899 (Ill. App. 1972)?
500
A student's mother sued because her daughter, who was diagnosed as mentally challenged, was misplaced in her classes. The courts said that educational malpractice caused the misplacement because proper testing and placement that needed to be done, wasn't done. What was the name of this case?
What is B.M. v. State of Montana, 649 P. 2d 425 (Mont. 1982)?
500
If I don't show up to work multiple times on purpose, I am acting deliberately to violate my employers rules so I am acting with what?
What is willful conduct?
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