Court Rules School District, Other Defendants Can’t Be Held Liable for Coach’s Inappropriate Relationship

A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dealt a blow to a student athlete and her parents, who sued a school district and several other defendants after a high school softball coach within the school district had an inappropriate sexual relationship with the student athlete. The judge, in granting the summary judgement motion of the defendants, found that the plaintiffs’ allegations that the defendants violated their daughter’s Constitutional rights, Title IX and other