The case where a teacher sexually assaulted by a student in Texas but was not allowed to sue the school because she was covered under workers comp.
What is Simpson
100
The case when a student jumped off the merry-go-round and broke her leg in which comparative negligence was applied to the case.
What is Rollins
100
The degree of caution and concern for the safety of himself/herself and others an ordinarily prudent and rational person would use in the circumstances.
What is reasonable care.
100
A requirement that a person act toward others and the public with watchfulness, attention, caution, and prudence that a reasonable person in the circumstances would.
What is duty of care.
100
An act from which an injury results as a natural, direct, uninterrupted consequence and without which the injury would not have occurred.
What is Proximate Cause
200
Mancha
What is the case when a student was beaten on a field trip to the Field Museum of Natural History?
200
The case where the appellant filed a charge of discrimination against the Board of Education of Baltimore County, but failed because of government immunity.
What is Zimmer Rubert
200
A small symbolic award where the plaintiff has been wronged but has not been able to show actual damages.
What is Nominal Damages
200
Compensate injured persons for their actual losses, including for their medical expenses, lost salary, and other provable cost incurred as a result of the defendant's negligence.
What is Compensatory Damages
200
Honesty; a sincere intention to deal fairly with others.
What is Good Faith Standard
300
A state court recognized a claim for educational malpractice based on negligent placement of a special education student.
What is BM v State of Montana
300
Court case in which a teacher was negligent when a student was struck with a pebble in the eye.
What is Sheehan v St. Peter's Catholic School
300
The litigant who successfully brings or defends an action and as a result receives a favorable judgment or verdict
What is Prevailing Party
300
A requirement that a person act toward others and the public with watchfulness, attention, caution and prudence that a reasonable person in the circumstances would.
What is Personal Humiliation
300
The court case, Doe Ortega Piron v. Chicago Board of Education, was a case in which was appealed due to what being adequately pleaded?
What is Willful Conduct
400
Court case in which Section 1983 was violated.
What is Wood vs. Trickland
400
In this case, a school district was not liable where a middle school student sued the school district after being beaten by other students on a school bus.
What is Lopez vs Houston Independent School District
400
The government's freedom from being sued for money damages without its consent.
What is Sovereign Immunity
400
Emotional disturbances such as distress, anxiety, depression, grief and/or psychosomatic physical symptoms
What is Mental Anguish and Suffering
400
Where some students have brought legal actions alleging that schools should be held liable for negligent teaching that injures a student intellectually or physiologically.
What is Educational Malpractice
500
Case where the school board and superintendent were found negligent due to a negligent hiring because of the retention of a teacher who sexually abused a student.
What is School Board of Orange County v Coffey
500
A U.S. Supreme Court case that held that a 1919 Nebraska law restricting foreign-language education violated the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Meyer v Nebraska
500
If a student's own negligence contributed to the injury, the law in a few states would consider the student guilty of this.
What is Contributory Negligence
500
Awarded where defendants have shown malice, fraud, or reckless disregard for an injured person's safety or constitutional rights.
What is Punitive Damages
500
Employers can be liable to employees or to third persons when they are negligent in hiring or retaining employees whom they know or should have known or unfit and who put others at unreasonable risk of harm.