· 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
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- 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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