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062311P.pdf 04/27/2007 Sarah Cox v. B. Alan Sugg
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-2311
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Beam and Riley, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. In suit seeking to hold university officials
liable for sexual harassment plaintiff suffered from one of her professors,
the officials were entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff's Section
1983 claim as plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence of culpability
and causation by high ranking university officials to avoid summary
judgment in their favor; applying Title IX precedents, plaintiff failed to
show any of the defendants had actual notice of the professor's actions,
responded inadequately when they learned of it or exhibited deliberate
indifference to the problem of sexual harassment at the university; further
defendants presented uncontroverted evidence of a strong, published
policy prohibiting sexual harassment of students and others in the
university community.