· 4/27/2007
Sarah Cox v. B. Alan Sugg, President of the University of Arkansas, in His Official and Individual Capacities, University of Arkansas
Citations
- 484 F.3d 1062
- 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 9570
- 2007 WL 1225376
How courts have described this case
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- noting that an official’s inadequate response can amount to deliberate indifference
- explaining a Fourteenth Amendment sexual harassment claim via section 1983 identifies the “Equal Protection Clause as the relevant constitutional provision”
- “In general, supervisors . . . are liable under § 1983 for a subordinate’s violation of a third person’s constitutional injury only if their deliberate indifference to the offensive conduct and failure to take adequate remedial action proximately caused the injury.”
- absolving university administrators on this ground
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Judges: Loken, Beam, Riley
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