Harrington v. La. State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Educ.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the relevant inquiry for vicarious liability is whether the employee’s tortious conduct was reasonably foreseeable... considering the authority given to the employee
• reversing jury’s finding that the state school board was not negligent in hiring a program director who had a criminal record and admitted at trial that “he was found guilty” of the rape giving rise to the negligent hiring and vicarious liability claims
• community college owed a duty of care in hiring a program director who abused authority to assault a student

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).