Legal Opinion
Edward Vega v. Floyd H. Miller, James C. Desimone, Howard L. English, Carolyn D. Jones, and G. Peter Cooney
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 29, 2001No. Docket 00-9214PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge JOSÉ A. CABRANES dissents in a separate opinion.
JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the availability of a qualified immunity defense for five administrators at the New York Maritime College (“College”) who discharged a nontenured teacher for leading a classroom “word association” exercise. The administrators concluded that the teacher had acted unprofessionally when he failed to ter-mínate the exercise in which students, some standing on chairs, shouted out vulgar, sexually explicit terms, many of which the teacher wrote down, in words or initials, on a blackboard. The…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by41 opinions
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- Wayne Ford v. John McGinnis Superintendent, Patrick McGann Deputy Superintendent of Administration, Gordon Lord, Assistant Deputy SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
- Velez v. LevyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2005
- Velez v. LevyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2005
- Connecticut ex rel. Blumenthal v. CrottyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
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