Anti-Bullying Archives - Public Justice

March 24, 2022 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence, Students' Civil Rights Project Cases / Briefs

Shelby v. Huntsville City Board of Education

This federal civil rights case involves the tragic death of Nigel Shelby, a Black, openly gay freshman at Alabama’s Huntsville High School who died by suicide at age 15 after experiencing unchecked LGBTQ+ harassment and race discrimination at school. Nigel never felt safe at Huntsville…

June 13, 2019 Anti-Bullying, Civil Rights & Liberties Cases / Briefs

K.R. v. Duluth Pub. Schs. Academy

Public Justice and Nichols Kaster represent students of color and their families in a civil rights lawsuit against Duluth Public Schools Academy d/b/a Duluth Edison Charter Schools that seeks to hold the public charter school system accountable for subjecting black and biracial students to a…

April 24, 2019 Anti-Bullying, Civil Rights & Liberties, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Doe v. Gwinnett County School District

This was a civil rights suit on behalf of Jane Doe, a biracial female who, at age 16, was forced to engage in a sexual act at school by a high school male student. When Jane Doe reported the incident to school officials, they did…

August 2, 2018 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Snyder-Hill, et al. v. The Ohio State University and Moxley v. The Ohio State University

Public Justice and its co-counsel represent 127 survivors of sexual abuse by Ohio State University doctor Richard Strauss. They are among the potentially thousands of male students, workers, and visitors sexually abused by Dr. Strauss while he was employed by Ohio State. The lawsuit alleges…

June 14, 2018 Anti-Bullying Cases / Briefs

H.L. v. Monongalia County Schools

This is a civil rights and negligence case against a West Virginia school district and sheriff’s department on behalf of a biracial high school student assaulted with a blade after the school district ignored repeated reports of racial cyberbullying and threats by her attacker, a…

June 13, 2018 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Larios v. Chadron State College

This was a civil rights case against a state college that failed to respond appropriately to reports of student-on-student dating violence and, as a result, the victim died. Fatima Larios, a promising student-athlete on the softball team at Chadron State College in Nebraska was found…

June 13, 2018 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Doe v. Washington Public Schools

This is a civil rights case brought by an Oklahoma middle school student subjected to three sexual assaults by his male peers in an 18-month period, almost daily verbal harassment and bullying, and threats of physical harm and death in Washington Public Schools that went…

May 31, 2016 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Richards v. Williamson County Board of Education

This was a Title IX sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Dallas Richards, who stopped attending a public high school in Williamson County, Tennessee, because school officials failed to take appropriate steps to protect her from sexual harassment by a male student. In 2013, while Ms….

May 31, 2016 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Hill v. Cundiff (Madison County School Board)

This case arose from the sexual harassment and assault of a 14-year-old female student in an Alabama public school. The girl was raped by a male student in a school bathroom after the school used her as bait in a plan to catch the known…

February 19, 2016 Anti-Bullying Cases / Briefs

Shively v. Green Local School District Board of Education

This federal civil rights lawsuit was filed by Lisa Shively on behalf of her daughter, T.S., a 17-year old Jewish girl who stopped attending public school in Northeast Ohio after enduring over four years of anti-Semitic and gender-based harassment with virtually no intervention by school…

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