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· 9/20/2004

Haney v. Bradley County Board of Education

Citations

  • 160 S.W.3d 886
  • 2004 Tenn. App. LEXIS 607
  • 2004 WL 2086327

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that the failure to implement an early-dismissal policy adopted by the -9- board of education was an operational decision not a discretionary decision
  • holding that a school board’s duty to exercise reasonable care for the safety of its students included a duty to read a parent’s explanation for signing out his or her children from school in situation where parent checked the children out and then murdered them
  • determining that a genuine dispute of material fact arose about foreseeability when an ex-spouse’s stated reasons to school officials for checking the children out of school before murdering the children included “Pay Back” and “Keeping Promise by Mother”
  • focusing on an ex-spouse’s decision to write down “pay back” as a reason for checking out the children from school and whether the school’s employees saw or questioned that reason prior to releasing the children from school
  • failure to enforce school sign-out policy

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Judges: Judge D. Michael Swiney

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