Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission
Chi. Cable Commc’ns v. Chi. Cable Comm’n, 107 L. Ed. 2d 835 (1990)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1990-01-16
- Topic
- general
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." | 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."
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.