Taking schools to task.Ever since gay high school student Jamie Nabozny won a nearly $1-million settlement in his lawsuit against his Wisconsin school The Wisconsin school in economics was based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and played a prominent role in American economics in the first half of the 20th century. district in 1996, lawsuits charging that schools have failed to combat harassment of gay and lesbian students have proliferated. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, at least half a dozen such suits are pending. Now, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, those suits have more of a fighting chance one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. See also: Fighting . School districts, the high court said May 24, can be found liable for failing to protect students from extreme cases of sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. by their peers or teachers. The finding came in the case of a Georgia schoolgirl whose mother alleged that administrators ignored the severe sexual harassment of her daughter by a male student, but the ruling also applies to same-sex harassment. |
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