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· 12/3/2012

Zeno v. Pine Plains Central School District

Citations

  • 702 F.3d 655
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 24833
  • 2012 WL 5992147

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a school district cannot be held liable under Title VI unless it had actual knowledge of discrimination and was deliberately indifferent to it
  • holding that a jury was within its power to find that a school district was deliberately indifferent where it waited over a year to implement remedial action in response to a complaint
  • concluding that a jury could have found actionable harassment where high school student attending “a racially homogenous school” was subjected to “frequent pejorative references to his skin tone”
  • concluding that a jury could have found actionable harassment where high school student attending \a racially homogenous school\ was subjected to \frequent pejorative references to his skin tone\
  • holding that the jury’s finding of deliberate indifference was supported by the record based in part on the fact that the school’s “remedial actions were little more than half-hearted measures”
  • holding that the jury’s finding of deliberate indifference was supported by the record based in part on the fact that the school’s “remedial actions were little more than half-hearted measures”

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Judges: Cabranes, Livingston, Chin

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