Duval County School Board v. Buchanan ex rel. Cox

In this appeal, the Duval County School Board raises two issues: (1) whether the trial court erred by excluding testimony of a third party that a racial slur may have prompted the physical beating of stu-denVplaintiff Shelby Buchanan by Kiara Terry, despite neither student — nor any administrator, teacher, or other student present before or at the time of the beating — having heard a slur; and (2) whether the trial court erred in allowing the jury to consider the School Board’s prior disciplinary decisions regarding Terry in support of the alleged breach of duty. We affirm on the first issue,…