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Ruling: A prior state appeals court ruling — that an ISD wrongfully fired a teacher — is upheld, except for dropping (at the ex-teacher’s request) the court’s order that the originating trial judge must determine if (and how much) the ex-teacher is due in attorney fees from the district.
Ruling: An ISD lacks sovereign immunity protections against being sued for breach of contract by a financial consultant.
Ruling: Although an ISD has immunity from being sued by a “third-party” provider of medical services under the district’s self-funded employee health insurance program, a city with a similar (but not identical) employee health plan is possibly not immune from being sued by the provider.
Ruling: An ISD lacks sovereign immunity protections against being sued for breach of contract by a financial consultant.
Ruling: An ISD’s school bus policies, actions and past practices, when considered together, do not make the district federally liable for a school bus driver’s repeated molestation of a young special-needs student.
A now-former ISD child nutrition director couldn’t show she was retaliated against by being fired four years after she reported her suspicions that the district’s chief financial officer — who was later fired and then elected to the ISD’s board and became its president — had improperly transferred child nutrition funds for other uses by the district.
Ruling: The mere fact that an ISD reportedly had — in its possession — school bus video surveillance footage of a bus driver sexually molesting two young female students more than 100 times does not make the ISD’s superintendent and ex-transportation director liable in the lawsuit the parents filed against them and the district.
Ruling: An ISD’s policy to mostly hire the lowest level of state-certified aides to assist special-ed students did not violate the rights of a disabled student, who was twice injured while in the presence of his assigned aide.
A federal lawsuit filed by the parents of a White high school student who alleged their son was racially discriminated against after complaining about a homework assignment is dismissed.
Ruling: A Texas charter school has — thus far — failed to show that it has “sovereign immunity” from being sued over an ex-teacher’s claim that she was wrongfully terminated in violation of federal law.
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