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Adjustment Disorders

Adjustment Disorders

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See Davis v. Monroe Cnty. Bd. of Educ. Gebser v. Lago

Vista Indep. Sch. Dist. Jennings v. Univ. of North Carolina

subjectively

de novo .

See Fonner v. Fairfax Cnty.

JenningsDavis Gebser See

Id.

Davisso severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive

DavisDavis Jennings

Jennings DavisCompare Jennings with Davis

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en banc

Jennings v. University of North Carolina

Jennings

See id.

Id.

See id.

Jennings

JenningsDavis

GebserSee Davis

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Id. see also id.

subjectively

See

id.

Baynard v. Malone

Baynard Baynard

history

substantial risk potential

currently

See id.

Baynard specific act or instance

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Baynard en banc Jennings

Jennings

Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District

respondeat superior Id.

Id.

Gebser

Gebser See

generally id.

Knowledge

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Knowledge

Notice

Notice

Gebser

Gebser

Actual

Notice

Gebser

advised of

Gebser

notice Advise

Gebser

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Gebser

alert the

principal to the possibility

Gebser

Davis v. Monroe County Board of

Education

See

reports of [the

harasser’s] misconduct Id.

Id.

See also Jackson v. BirminghamBd.

of Educ.

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id.

or received a report of it Doe v. Galster

See, e.g. I.F. v. Lewisville Indep.

Sch. Dist. Papelino v. Albany Coll. of Pharmacy of

Union Univ. Santiago v. Puerto Rico

Doe v. Sch. Bd. of Broward Cnty.

Oden v. N. Marianas Coll. Warren ex rel. Good v.

Reading Sch. Dist. Vance v. Spencer Cnty. Pub. Sch.

Dist. Murrell v. Sch. Dist. No. 1

see also Escue v. N. Okla. Coll.

But see Shrum ex rel. Kelly v. Kluck

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see

also

subjectively

Id.

See

Davis

already

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See

before

see also

gossip rumor

report complaint

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Minter v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Knussman v. Maryland

see also Atlas Food Sys. & Servs., Inc. v. Crane Nat. Vendors, Inc.

Aetna Casualty

& Sur. Co. v. Yeatts overruled on other grounds by

Gasperini v. Ctr. for Human., Inc.

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See Minter

any

Id. Bristol Steel & IronWorks

v. BethlehemSteel Corp.

Id. Bristol Steel

Id.

Id.Id.

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subjective

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de novo

Baynard

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Id.

Id.

Blum v. Bacon

See id.

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Davis

see Baynard

S.B. ex rel. A.L. v. Bd. of Educ. of Harford Cnty.

see also

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Id.

Id.Id.

•but not with

Smith

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Id.

Davis

Davis

Fitzgerald v. Barnstable Sch. Comm. rev’d

and remanded on other grounds Williams v. Bd. of Regents of Univ.

Sys. of Ga.

See Fitzgerald Williamspost

See K.T. v. Culver-

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Fitzgerald

Id.

Davis

students must not be denied access to

educational benefits and opportunities on the basis of gender Davis

Stockton Coll. EscueReese v. Jefferson Sch. Dist. No. 14J

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Id.

its own response

sexual harassment

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Id.

See id. see also Jennings

Jennings

Jennings Davis

Id. Davis

Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Servs., Inc.

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Jennings

Id.

at least

Jennings See also Davis

See

see also Rape

See Overview of Rape andSexual Violence

Sexual Harassment

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Id.

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Jennings

Jennings

JenningsFaragher v. City of Boca Raton see also Fitzgerald

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REVERSED AND REMANDED

Id.

See supra

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after the fact

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caused

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such that the school’s indifference to the known conduct

actually caused the harassment

only

caused Davis v. Monroe Cnty. Bd. of Educ.

See Cannon v. Univ. of Chi.

See Gebser v. Lago Vista Indep. Sch. Dist.

Gebser only the school’s own conduct

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opportunity

Id.

Id.

cause Id.

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

the independent conduct of the school

causing harassment

caused Davis

Id.

Gebser Davis Davis

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Davis

systemic

Id.

Davis

Davis

caused

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See Kollaritsch v. Mich. State Univ. Bd. of Trustees

cert. denied

see also K.T. v. Culver-Stockton Coll.

Escue v. N. Okla. Coll.

Reese v. Jefferson Sch. Dist. No. 14J

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