When a grown man like Norwalk High’s state champion basketball coach Frederick English is accused in federal court of physically abusing a teenage girl, the lawsuit alone can be a punishment.

But Senior U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Bree Burns, by granting English’s summary judgment Jan. 11, lifted a cloud. She said the charges of pinching, light slapping and ridicule did not rise to the level of “extreme or outrageous” behavior that shocked the conscience of the court.

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