092535P.pdf   10/19/2010  John Doe  v.  Tayna Wilcher
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-2535
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Hot Springs   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Arnold and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Civil rights. The district court erred in denying school
   principal's and school district's motions for summary judgment on claim
   they violated plaintiffs' civil rights when they failed to investigate and
   take remedial action on claims that a teacher sexually abused their minor
   daughter; the information the principal had before her did not provide her
   with actual notice of sexual abuse and her reasonable investigation did
   not uncover any evidence to substantiate suspicions that such conduct
   was occurring; as a result, she was not deliberately indifferent to
   violations of the student's constitutional rights, and she was entitled to
   qualified immunity; under Title IX, a school district cannot be liable
   unless the appropriate person with authority to rectify the violation had
   actual notice of the alleged contact and since neither party disputes that
   the principal was the appropriate person for purposes of this analysis, the
   Title IX claim against the district must fail.