Doe v. Town of Blandford

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that town could be hable for school committee members’ negligent hiring and supervision of guidance counselor
• allowing a negligence claim against the Town for its failure to supervise and fire a guidance counselor who assaulted the plaintiff
• defendant school officials not immune from liability for negligently supervising employee who sexually assaulted plaintiff student
• MTCA permitted claims regarding public employer's negligent conduct in hiring, retaining, and supervising guidance counselor who assaulted student independent of alleged vicarious liability for intentional tort of public employee
• MTCA does not bar suit against public employer for guidance counselor's abuse of student, where claims against employer were based on employer's negligent hiring, supervision, and retention of guidance counselor
• negligent hiring and retention of employee who assaulted plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).