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· 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

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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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