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Case Law II: Return of the Cases
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This is the degree of care a teacher of ordinary rudence would use in a circumstance.
What is reasonable care?
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This is a cause that can be seen as the primary cause of an injury.
What is proximate cause?
100
This occurs when someone's reputation is damaged through some form of defamation.
What is impairment of reputation?
100
This case established a standard of reasonable care, a standard which any prudent teacher would perform under, by finding a Catholic school negligent in an injury.
What is Sheehan v. St. Peter's Catholic School (1971)
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The case of Rollins v. Concordia Parish School Board (1985),involving a student jumping off a merry go round, used this principle, wherein student liability is weighed against school liability.
What is comparative negligence?
200
This theory holds that since the state is sovereign, it should not be held liable for employee negligence.
What is Governmental immunity?
200
This is the winner of a lawsuit.
What is the prevailing party?
200
This standard requires sincere effort to be made by an educator.
What is good faith standard?
200
This case reinforced the responsibility of teachers to protect and care for students, or duty of care, after a high school student committed suicide after telling counselors she was suicidal.
What is Eisel v. Board of Education of Montgomery County (1991)
200
This case found a teacher guilty of willful misconduct after he told a student who wrote a paper on suicide that they should try it.
What is Sheldon Community School District v. Lundblad (1995)?
300
This is a small symbolic award given when wrong has been done, but damages cannot be shown.
What are Nominal Damages?
300
This is Responsibility under the law.
What is liability?
300
This occurs when defamation or circumstances causes extreme public embarrassment.
What is personal embarrassment?
300
This case established that educational malpractice, or negligent teaching that injures a student intellectually, had not occurred in the case of a high school graduate with a fifth-grade reading level because there was no clear standard of proficiency.
What is Peter W. v. San Francisco Unified School District (1976)?
300
Title IX was used in this case involving student sexual harassment, because the student was denied equal educational opportunity due to the severity of the harassment.
What is Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education?
400
This law establishes most school districts as "persons" who can be held liable in court.
What is Section 1983?
400
This is money awarded above and beyond damages as a deterrent for similar future actions.
What are punitive damages?
400
This occurs when an event causes extreme psychological torment to the plaintiff.
What is mental anguish and suffering?
400
This case established that a school can be liable for negligent hiring, or hiring someone who could be a harm to others, after a retained teacher sexually abused students.
What is School Board of Orange County v. Coffey (1988)
400
This case found a teacher liable for emotional damages because he pretended he had hanged a student's friends, whereupon the school had to pay damages.
What is Spears v. Jefferson Parish School Board (1999)?
500
This right, established under the 11th Amendment, prevents individuals from suing states under ADEA.
What is sovereign immunity?
500
These are damages related to an actual loss suffered by the plaintiff.
What are compensatory damages?
500
This occurs when a teacher acts in a way that deliberately violates the established rules.
What is willful misconduct?
500
This concept, that a student partially caused their own injury, led to the dismissal of the case Miles v. School District Number 138 of Cheyenne County (1979), after a student severed two fingers despite safety training.
What is contributory negligence?
500
This case upheld the liability standard as equal for substitute teachers after a student assaulted another behind a portable chalkboard during class.
What is Collins v. School Board of Broward County?
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