Ison v. Buskirk-Rutledge Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

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• Providing criteria for liability against municipalities “through one of its policymakers promulgat[ing] an unconstitutional policy, or acquiesce[ing] in a widespread custom that caused the constitutional violation”
• denying motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s negligent hiring claim following a “student-on-student” sexual assault because the plaintiff alleged there was a “pattern of sexual assaults” or harassment when a teacher would leave the classroom
• listing elements of intentional emotional distress under New Jersey state law
• “Claims of negligence do not rise to the level of constitutional protection under § 1983, even when unfortunate harm occurs.” (citations omitted)
• “But providing a high school setting in which an assault occurs without specific warning does not amount to the school Defendants creating the opportunity for criminal conduct victimizing Plaintiff that could not otherwise have occurred.”
• “But providing a high school setting in which an assault occurs without specific warning does not amount to the school Defendants creating the opportunity for criminal conduct victimizing Plaintiff that could not otherwise have occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).