Legal Opinion
RALSTON v. POULOS
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 23, 2021No. 2:19-cv-01539Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA MATTHEW RALSTON : CIVIL ACTION : v. : NO. 19-1539 : MITCHELL GARABEDIAN, ESQ., et : al. : MEMORANDUM KEARNEY, J. December 23, 2021 A lawyer representing a former student may notify a school of a former teacher allegedly sexually abusing his client twenty-plus years earlier. The lawyer may privately do so with no court or media involvement when the former student does not want public review of the sexual abuse claim. But assertions of student sexual abuse may harm a teacher’s reputation. And valid policy reasons…
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