DT v. Somers Central School District

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “remedial action [that] only follows after a lengthy and unjustifiable delay” can be unreasonable and thereby support a finding of deliberate indifference
• finding that “[a]s Title VI requires actual notice, the principle of respondeat superior will not impute [a teacher’s] knowledge of [the harassment suffered by the plaintiff] to defendants” where a teacher observed but failed to report racial harassment
• Section 1983 equal protection claim subsumed by Title VI claim that shares the same underlying facts
• Title VI plaintiffs must show that school “was deliberately indifferent to racial hostility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).