Doe v. Flaherty

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parents’ questions to a school principal about claims that “something was going on” between their daughter and her teacher were not sufficient evidence of actual notice
• holding that knowledge was absent even after a coach had texted messages like -4- “OMG you look good today,” “tell your mom I love her,” and “Are you drunk yet?” to female students
• concluding school principal was entitled to qualified immunity on § 1983 claims stemming from sexual abuse of student by basketball coach
• finding that “inappropriate” and “suggestive” text messages could not impute actual notice because the messages “did not go so far as to suggest actual sexual conduct or sexual abuse”
• finding that a “student’s familiar behavior with a teacher or even an ‘excessive amount of time’ spent with a teacher, without more, does not ‘automatically give rise to a reasonable inference of sexual abuse.’”
• defendant did not have actual notice despite knowledge that employee sent sexually suggestive text messages to plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).