Legal Opinion
Saxe v. State College Area School District
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 17, 1999No. 4:CV-99-1757PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
McCLURE, District Judge.
BACKGROUND:
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark decision holding that a local school board could be held liable for damages under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq. (as amended) for claims of “student-on-student” sexual harassment. Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, 526 U.S. 629, 119 S.Ct. 1661, 143 L.Ed.2d 839 (1999). Such an action will lie “only where the funding recipient acts with deliberate indifference to known acts of harassment in its programs or activities” and “only…
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3Cited by3 opinions
- David Warren Saxe Student Doe 1, by and Through His Next Friend, David Warren Saxe Student Doe 2, by and Through His Next Friend, David Warren Saxe v. State College Area School District Constance Martin, in Her Official Capacity as President of the State College Area School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001
- Saxe v. State College Area School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001
- Saxe v. State College Area School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001