Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education
United States Supreme Court
526 U.S. 629 (1999)
LaShonda, a fifth-grader, was repeatedly sexually harassed by a classmate over several months, with the harassment and complaints from LaShonda and other students reported to multiple school officials, yet the school took no action to investigate, discipline, or separate the students for five months and had no policy addressing student-on-student harassment; LaShonda's mother (plaintiff) sued the school board (defendant) under Title IX, and the trial court and Eleventh Circuit dismissed the suit, holding student-on-student harassment wasn't actionable under the statute.
Whether a school may be liable under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for deliberate indifference to known acts of harassment by a student.