Head v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the context in which a male paraeducator wrote notes to an elementary school student “certainly informs the interpretation” of the notes
• explaining that the context in which a male paraeducator wrote notes to an elementary school student “certainly informs the interpretation” of the notes
• describing the rule as an aid to resolving an ambiguity in a criminal statute
• “We begin with a presumption that the statute is constitutional, and the burden rests on Petitioner to show why that is not the case.”
• an adult who passed notes to a child in class exploited her sexually because “the context and the content” of the notes was sexual and the adult “received a benefit” — sexual or romantic pleasure — from the notes
• an adult who passed notes to a child in class exploited her sexually because “the context and the content” of the notes was sexual and the adult “received a benefit” − sexual or romantic pleasure − from the notes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).