Legal Opinion
White v. Gurnon
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 30, 2006No. 04-P-1431PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
This appeal arises from two consolidated actions that were filed in Superior Court. In each case, a former female cadet at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy (school), a State college in Bourne, sought damages for having suffered sexual harassment by male cadets. Among the claims raised against the school, its board of trustees, and certain individual school officials, the plaintiffs alleged a violation of their right to equal protection of the laws, as is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, and actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2000) (§ 1983).3
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2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Faragher v. City of Boca RatonSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Cannon v. University of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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