Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a school district can be liable under section 1983 for the sexual abuse of a student by a teacher
• identifying the “right to freedom from invasion of ... personal security through sexual abuse” in a school setting
• denying qualified immunity to school principal and assistant principal who allegedly failed to make adequate inquiry into sexual abuse of student by teacher
• linchpin of due process claim for custom, practice or policy theory is an underlying constitutional violation by state actors
• student who was sexually assaulted by her teacher had a well-established constitutional right “to freedom from invasion of her personal security through sexual abuse.”
• After DeShaney, \we can no longer rely on the statutory and common law duties imposed in Pennsylvania on school officials as the basis of a duty to protect students from harm occurring as the result of a third person.\

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Cited by

110 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gibson v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-08-23· cited 1,128×
• Jane Doe v. Taylor Independent School District, Mike Caplinger in His Official Capacities and Eddy Lankford in His Official and Individual Capacities
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-03-03· cited 600×
• Baker v. Monroe Township
  Third Circuit· 1995-05-01· cited 452×
• Lou Ann Merkle v. Upper Dublin School District Upper Dublin Township Police Department Margaret Thomas Clair Brown, Jr., Dr. Jack Hahn, Detective
  Third Circuit· 2000-05-09· cited 372×
• Brown v. Grabowski
  Third Circuit· 1990-12-31· cited 297×
• Jamie S. Nabozny v. Mary Podlesny, William Davis, Thomas Blauert
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-07-31· cited 256×
• Jane Doe v. Claiborne County, Tennessee
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-12-26· cited 240×
• Pinder v. Johnson
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-05-30· cited 189×
• Roman v. Jeffes
  Third Circuit· 1990-06-08· cited 185×
• United States v. Banks
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1992-09-30· cited 145×
• John Doe, as Next Friend of Jane Doe, a Child v. Hillsboro Independent School District, Larry Zabcik
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-06-17· cited 127×
• Maldonado v. Josey
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-09-16· cited 127×
• Heather Wallace, a Minor, by Her Mother and Next Friend, Phyllis Wallace v. The Batavia School District 101, a Municipal Corporation, and James Cliffe
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-10-19· cited 105×
• Almand v. DeKalb County, Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-01-24· cited 100×
• Doe v. Claiborne County ex rel. Claiborne County Board of Education
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-12-26· cited 85×
• Gibson v. The City Of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-08-23· cited 82×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1992-08-11· cited 73×
• United States v. David W. Lanier
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-01-23· cited 66×
• Maher v. New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-08-01· cited 59×
• Burns v. County of Cambria
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-28· cited 59×

Other cases named Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-07-19· cited 13×
• Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission
  N.D. Illinois· 1988-01-21· cited 5×
• Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-08-15
• Chicago Cable Communications v. Chicago Cable Commission
  Supreme Court· 1990-01-16