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This court case sanctioned that segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th amendment.
What is Brown vs the Board of Education?
100
This concept is when an event is sufficiently related to an injury and the courts deem that event as the cause of the injury.
What is proximate cause?
100
In the case of C.A. (a minor) vs William S. Hart Union High School District, the Supreme Court ruled the school district was at fault for this malpractice for hiring a known guidance counselor that had engaged in unlawful sexually-related conduct with minors in the past.
What is negligent hiring?
100
This type of award is meant to compensate an injured person(s) for their actual losses; medical expenses, lost salary, etc.
What is compensatory damages?
100
The school district it not able to commit a legal wrong doing and can not come under a civil law suit or criminal prosecution because of this.
What is sovereign immunity?
200
This court case ruled that children with disabilities must be provided access to public schools and the same basic floor of opportunities.
What is Hendrick Hudson Board of Education vs Rowley?
200
In 46 states, this concept took the place of contributory negligence, focusing more on the relative fault of both parties instead of one party contributing more so to something than another.
What is comparative negligence?
200
In Spears vs Jefferson Parish School Board, a school district in Louisiana was required to pay $117,658 in damages to cover the cost of psychotherapy for this type of distress a kindergarten student underwent after a PE teacher pretended to hang two of his friends.
What is mental anguish and suffering?
200
This is the ruled winner in lawsuit or case.
What is the prevailing party?
200
This is an action teachers must take to ensure their students do not meet any foreseeable injury.
What is reasonable care?
300
This court case ruled in the favor of the students, as a violation of the First Amendment, when students wore black armbands to school as an expression of dissatisfaction with U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker vs Des Moines?
300
When a teacher is deemed professionally negligent or fail to provide reasonable services for the circumstance, they are said to be guilty of this.
What is educational malpractice?
300
This concept was applied to two high school counselors in Maryland, Eisel vs Board of Education of Montgomery County, for failing to attempt at stopping a student's suicide.
What is duty of care?
300
This is award for defendants who have been shown wrong doing, fraud, or reckless disregard for an injured person's safety or rights.
What is punitive damages?
300
This is when a teacher acts with the right intentions for what is best for the student.
What is the good faith standard?
400
These two court cases shaped the modern understanding of how the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment disallows prayer in public schools.
What is Engel vs Vitale and Abington School District vs Schempp?
400
The Supreme Court established this concept, stating liability may imposed upon the state or actions of third parties who deprive individuals of life, liberty, or property only when the state has a special relationship with that individual.
What is Section 1983?
400
In the Leja vs Community Unit School District 300 upheld the dismissal of lawsuit when the school district was said to be engaging in this stubborn disregard for possible injury when a student was struck in the face by a volleyball crank.
What is willful conduct?
400
This is granted by various doctrines or statues that provide federal, state, or local governments safety from different claims.
What is governmental immunity?
400
This is what happens when circumstances or events, true or false, effect the status or image of a teacher and his/her life moving forward.
What is impairment of reputation?
500
In this Supreme Court ruling, the court decided that the denial of admission to a public school because of a student's race in the interest of achieving racial diversity is unconstitutional.
What is Parents Involved in the Community Schools vs Seattle?
500
In Campos vs Escalante, the school was not deemed under this concept for the injury that occurred to Lenette Campos being struck by a truck because the reference to the California traffic manual was deemed to have no binding effect on the school, for it did not create a duty of care for Campos.
What is liable?
500
This is a small symbolic award, where the plaintiff has been wronged but is not able to show actual damages.
What is nominal damages?
500
This could be when a teacher attacks a student emotional and it has lasting negative effects.
What is personal humiliation?
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