Legal Opinion
Santiago v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 24, 2011No. 10-1449PublishedCited by 227 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal grows out of a lurid allegation that a bus driver assigned to transport special education students to and from a public school sexually abused one of his charges. It presents important questions concerning the parameters of the “under color of state law” requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the “actual knowledge” requirement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681— 1688.
After a dizzying array of procedural twists and turns, the district court resolved these questions in favor of the defendants and brought the action to a close. The…
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