Hunt v. Sycamore Community School District Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an employee can prevail against his or her employer, notwithstanding Collins, in state-created danger cases
• affirming summary judgment for defendants in substantive due process suit by teacher’s aide who was assaulted by student
• affirming dismissal of substantive-due-process claim by teacher’s aide against school board for dangerous working conditions arising from assault of aide by autistic student
• affirming district court’s dismissal of Monell claim against local government entity because there was no underlying constitutional violation
• requiring § 1983 plaintiffs to plead two elements: “(1) deprivation of a right secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States (2) caused by a person acting under color of state law”
• “[W]e have held open the possibility that in extreme cases the governmental actor’s choice to endanger a plaintiff in the service of a countervailing duty would be deemed arbitrary[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).