Sandra T.E. v. Grindle’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.3d 583 · 2010
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Rochin v. People of California · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Ingraham v. Wright
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allow a jury to conclude that [the principal] knew about [the teacher’s] abuse of the girls and deliberately helped cover it up by misleading the girls’ parents, the superintendent, and other administrators. From this evidence, a jury could reasonably infer — though it would not be required to infer — that [the principal] also had a purpose of discriminating against the girls based on their gender. If [the principal] wishes to argue that she merely wanted to avoid a scandal or that she would have taken similar steps to conceal abuse if boys had been the victims, she can present those arguments to the jury, but such suggestions do not mean that she is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.... [A] jury could conclude that by attempting to convert claims about sexual abuse by [the teacher] into complaints about teaching methods, [the principal] treated the girls’ complaints differently because of their sex.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Locke v. Haessig“[w]hile it appears that our precedent would have previously allowed a plaintiff to recover from a supervisor based on that supervisor's 'deliberate indifference' toward a subordinate's purposeful discrimination, after Iqbal a plaintiff must also show that the supervisor possessed the requisite discriminatory intent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because there is no theory of respondeat superior for constitutional torts, a plaintiff must plead that each ... defendant has violated the Constitution. In the equal protection context, this means showing that the supervisor ... intended to discriminate on the basis of a protected class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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