Appeals Court: School Board Is Not Liable for Hazing of Student Athlete

The 6th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court ruling that a local board of education should not be held liable for the actions of a high school coach, which “tolerated a culture of student-on-student hazing.”   In so ruling, the panel of judges found that the father, Donald Richardson, could “not show that the board acted with deliberate indifference, and he could not show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the complained of harm would befall his son as a r