United States First Circuit

In a suit against a school system alleging liability for student-on-student sexual harassment, judgment for plaintiff is vacated and remanded for entry of judgment in favor of the school system where the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to sustain the jury's conclusion that the system was deliberately indifferent to the harassment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2007
• Published 05/30/2007

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and LISI, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Samuel J. Perkins, with whom Leonard H. Kesten, Deborah I. Ecker, Deidre Brennan Regan, and Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten, LLP, were on brief, for appellant Town of Tewksbury.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lynn A. Leonard, for appellees.