Morse v. Lower Merion School District

How courts have described this case

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• holding that teacher’s murder was not foreseeable consequence of school officials allowing construction workers to use unlocked back door
• holding that school district’s failure to lock school’s back entrance did not create the opportunity for harm
• holding that a Court “need not credit a complaint's bald assertions or legal conclusions when deciding a motion to dismiss”
• recognizing that the court need not credit a pro se litigant’s “bald assertions” or “legal conclusions.”
• holding that the plaintiffs murder was not, as a matter of law, a “fairly direct” harm based on defendants leaving the back entrance to a school building unlocked
• noting that \[c]onduct that has been held to be an affirmative act under one set of facts has not met that standard in a similar setting.\

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