Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission

How later courts describe this case

• holding that a school district can be liable under section 1983 for the sexual abuse of a student by a teacher
• identifying the “right to freedom from invasion of ... personal security through sexual abuse” in a school setting
• denying qualified immunity to school principal and assistant principal who allegedly failed to make adequate inquiry into sexual abuse of student by teacher
• linchpin of due process claim for custom, practice or policy theory is an underlying constitutional violation by state actors
• student who was sexually assaulted by her teacher had a well-established constitutional right “to freedom from invasion of her personal security through sexual abuse.”
• After DeShaney, "we can no longer rely on the statutory and common law duties imposed in Pennsylvania on school officials as the basis of a duty to protect students from harm occurring as the result of a third person."