Legal Opinion
Varnell v. Dora Consolidated School District
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 1, 2014No. 13-2135PublishedCited by 167 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Amber Shaw coached Plaintiff Tori Var-nell in several sports while she was a student in the Dora Consolidated School District (Dora Schools). According to Plaintiff, Shaw sexually abused her for more than a year, ending while she was in the ninth grade, sometime in late 2006 or early 2007. On May 24, 2012, when Plaintiff was 20, she sued Ms. Shaw, Dora Schools, and Dora Schools Superintendent Steve Barron under the New Mexico Tort Claims Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. She later sought to amend her complaint to add an…
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