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Publication Date: 2019-08-19
Practice Area: Education Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Savage
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Case Number: 19-0964
A hearing officer who determined mother's residency for purposes of her children's enrollment in the school district erred when he limited the time period for examining mother's physical presence to the day of the attempted enrollment, but the error was harmless given the substantial evidence of non-residency. The commonwealth court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2019-07-29
Practice Area: Education Law
Industry: Education | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Caputo
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Case Number: 19-0882
School district moved to dismiss plaintiff's Title IX, fourteenth amendment, IDEA and federal rehabilitation act claims based on the treatment of her non-verbal autistic son in his education program and the court dismissed the Title IX and §1983 complaints and the demand for compensatory damages under §504 of the rehabilitation act for failure to state a claim. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2019-07-08
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Education Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Robreno
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Case Number: 19-0773
Younger abstention doctrine compelled dismissal of a student's complaint arising from his expulsion from school where expulsion constituted a state action and state law provided a mechanism for an appeal of expulsion and for the student to assert constitutional claims against expulsion. Complaint dismissed.
Publication Date: 2019-07-01
Practice Area: Civil Rights | Education Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Padova
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Case Number: 19-0758
ADA claims against defendant dismissed for failure to plead intent to continue enrollment to meet the future injury requirement, but §1981 race discrimination claims sustained where parents alleged school took adverse action against their child in response to racially motivated complaints from other parents. Defendants' motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2019-06-24
Practice Area: Education Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Rice
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Case Number: 19-0715
The plaintiff student produced enough evidence from which a reasonably jury could find that the defendant school deprived her of equal access to an education, as required by 20 U.S.C. §1681(a), by failing to adequately address her allegations of student-on-student sexual harassment. The court denied in part defendants' motion for summary judgment.
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Publication Date: 2019-05-27
Practice Area: Education Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Brann
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Case Number: 19-0611
Both parties moved for summary judgment in plaintiffs' action asserting Title IX violations by university in its women's athletic opportunities and the court denied the motions because the evidence of a participation gap under prong one did not support summary judgment, university's evidence did not satisfy prong two and issues of material fact prevented summary judgment on prong three. Motions denied.
Publication Date: 2019-05-27
Practice Area: Education Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Hornak
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Case Number: 19-0613
Defendants private school, school district and van operator moved to dismiss plaintiff's Title IX, §1983 and state law claims after he was sexually assaulted by another student on a van riding to school and court dismissed all claims except the Title IX claim against school district and the negligence claim against van operator. Motion dismissed in part and granted in part.
Publication Date: 2019-05-13
Practice Area: Education Law
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Kearney
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Case Number: 19-0563
Defendant university and deans moved for summary judgment in graduate student's action asserting §1983 constitutionally infirm procedural processes in his honor board hearings and state law claims of breach of contract, unjust enrichment and defamation and the court found student failed to adduce sufficient evidence to show bias or that dean manipulated the university disciplinary process, university's Monell liability or for his state law claims. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2019-04-08
Practice Area: Civil Rights | Education Law
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Hornak
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Case Number: 19-0402
School district sought summary judgment in plaintiff employee's action asserting she was denied due process during her suspension and termination and the true reason for her discipline was retaliation for speaking at a school board meeting several years earlier and the court found she produced no evidence of a nexus between her protected speech and her discipline and she was given notice of the accusations and an opportunity to be heard. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2019-04-01
Practice Area: Education Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 19-0365
District appealed the CAB's order granting charter school's appeal of the district's revocation of its charter and the court found the CAB erred in disregarding the evidence of student performance for the 2015-2016 school year. Vacated and remanded.
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