District in Trouble over Failed Response to Coach’s Past Transgressions

A federal judge has denied a school district’s motion for summary judgment in a case in which a family sued the district and a principal, alleging violations of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 among other things.   In so ruling, the court found that a jury could find that the defendants had “actual knowledge of discrimination,” exhibited “deliberate indifference,” and that the “conduct was humiliating.”   The actions leading to the litigation began at the sta