— In Illinois, the United States District Court is sending a student’s injury claim to a trial jury based upon the allegation that school officials were deliberately indifferent prior to an attack by another student. The injury to the student…
Tag: New Mexico
Safety Law News for September 24, 2024
— In New Mexico, the United States District Court refused to dismiss claims brought by parents of a student who alleged that “when she was a fourteen-year-old freshman…a senior student …raped her.” The gist of several claims is that “the…
Safety Law News for February 28, 2024
— In New Mexico, the Court of Appeals of New Mexico held that the actions of school officials leading up to the physical injury a student who returned to school after post-hip surgery fell within the waiver of immunity under…
Safety Law News for January 19, 2022
— In California, the United States District Court held that the repeated handcuffing of a special education student by educators and police for “acting up” did not merit qualified immunity. The court ruled that immunity, “does not apply to officers…
Safety Law News for November 17, 2021
— In Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the conviction on multiple counts of an adult who was arrested on school grounds by a school resource officer. A school administrator reported that “a sleeping or unconscious unidentified man…
Safety Law News for December 17, 2020
— In New Mexico, the Court of Appeals of New Mexico held that the statements of a student to an assistant principal about possessing a knife on school property were presumptively inadmissible in a delinquency proceeding. The statute, NMSA 1978,…
Safety Law News for October 27, 2020
— In Kentucky, the Kentucky Nurses Association School Nurse Task Force believes each school should have one nurse for every 750 students “every day, all day.” It is making its case to the legislature, asking for a $3 million pilot…
Safety Law News for August 25th, 2020
— In Maine, the United States Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction that prevented school officials from suspending a student who posted a sticky note in the bathroom that said, “THERE’S A RAPIST IN OUR SCHOOL AND YOU KNOW…
Safety Law News for August 21, 2020.
— In New Mexico, the Court of Appeals of New Mexico ruled that a student’s statements, made when he was thirteen years old, to the assistant principal of his school, were presumptively inadmissible under a state law that provides that,…
Safety Law News for June 19, 2020
— In Alaska, the superintendent of the Anchorage School District plans to maintain its school resource officer program. School officials believe that the police officers develop a professional but human connection with both the students and staff, connections which are…