J.H.C. v. District of Columbia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA J.H.C., by his father and next friend John Harrison Clarke, Plaintiff, Case No. 20-cv-1761 (CRC) v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION While an eighth-grader at a local public school, plaintiff J.H.C. was scolded by his theater teacher for making what she perceived to be a racially insensitive remark during class. The following day, the school informed J.H.C. that the parent of a fellow student had also accused him of making racist comments. A subsequent investigation by the D.C. public school system found the…