Legal Opinion
Driscoll v. Board of Trustees
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 27, 2007No. 06-P-1796PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKafker, J.
A seventeen year old student at Milton Academy, a private school (school), was expelled by the school and charged criminally with statutory rape for receiving oral sex from a fifteen year old female student. Four other boys involved in the same incident, which occurred in the boys’ locker room on the school campus, were also expelled and prosecuted, either as juveniles or adults, depending on their ages. The incident was reported in the newspapers and commented upon publicly by the school. The seventeen year old student and his parents3 brought suit in Superior Court against the school and…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Mullins v. Pine Manor CollegeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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- Schaer v. Brandeis UniversityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
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3Cited by44 opinions
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- Doe v. Amherst CollegeDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2017
- Doe v. Stonehill College, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2022
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