United States Second Circuit

In plaintiff's civil rights suit against a school district (District), claiming that the District was deliberately indifferent to his harassment from fellow high school students for three-and-a-half years, district court's judgment denying defendants' motion for judgment as a matter of law and granting remittitur of the jury's award of damages pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to $1 million, is affirmed where: 1) the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the jury's conclusion that plaintiff was subjected to actionable harassment, and that the District's responses to student harassment of the plaintiff amounted to deliberate indifference to discrimination; and 2) district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the record could support an award to plaintiff of $1 million.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2012
• Published 12/03/2012

Judges

• Chin

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel