Mason Ex Rel. Mason v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

How courts have described this case

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

• acknowledging that Tennessee law does not require teachers to foresee and protect against every conceivable student act every day
• emphasizing that “neither student had a disciplinary record indicative of violent behavior” and that “the girls did not know each other prior to the day of the assault”
• noting that a straight razor used to injure another student can have a dual purpose of being a classroom aid for a cosmetology class or a dangerous instrumentality when used for violent purposes
• noting the absence of disciplinary records for the involved students and acknowledging that “the girls did not know each other prior to the day of the assault”
• “The cosmetology teacher had no knowledge of antagonism between the two girls . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).