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- Through her parents and next friends William K. Bass ("Mr. Bass") and Nina B. Bass ("Dr. Bass"), Plaintiff Tatum Bass ("Plaintiff" or "Tatum") brings suit against her former high school, Miss Porter's School ("Porter's"), and its Head of School, Katherine Windsor, alleging that for their decision to expel her and their conduct leading up to that decision, Defendants are liable for breach of express contract, breach of implied contract, negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress,...
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Jan 14, 2011 · Prep School, Former Student Settle “Mean Girls” Lawsuit – NBC Connecticut. By LeAnne Gendreau • Published January 14, 2011 • Updated on January 14, 2011 at 4:30 pm. Tatum Bass is dropping her...
Mar 22, 2009 · And while the school cited those transgressions when it expelled Miss Bass in November, her side of the story is much darker: in a lawsuit against Miss Porter’s, Miss Bass says she was...
Jun 9, 2009 · Miss Porter’s made her so unhappy, in fact, that her parents hit the school with a lawsuit, alleging that a group of girls had verbally abused Tatum for weeks. The family claims that...
- A. Introduction
- B. The Handbook
- C. Events Leading to Tatum's Expulsion
- II. Standard
- III. Discussion
- B. Counts 1-7: Breach of Express and Implied Contracts
- Count 1: Informing Vanderbilt of Tatum's Cheating
- Count 2: Dismissing Plaintiff Without A Hearing
- Count 3: Failure to Prevent Bullying and Harassment
- Count 4: Failure to Intervene For Plaintiff's Distress
Tatum is an undergraduate student at Tulane University. She earned her high school diploma at Beaufort Academy in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 2009. Until the second semester of her senior year of high school, she had been a student at Porter's, a private girls-only high school in Farmington, Connecticut, but was expelled on November 19, 2008. This...
The Student Honor Code on the front cover of the Handbook states: In her introductory welcome letter within the Handbook, Windsor states: The Handbook contains a section called "Major School Rules." This section states that Porter's "is a no-use campus" as to "alcoholic beverages or illegal or controlled drugs of any kind (including tobacco)," and ...
In her junior year, Tatum was elected to the position of Head of Student Activities, also known as Student Activities Coordinator ("SAC"). It was her responsibility in this position "to work with the director of student activities to provide and organize all the social activities of the school, whether . . . at the school or in cooperation with oth...
"Summary judgment is appropriate where, construing all evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party," Pabon v. Wright, 459 F.3d 241, 247 (2d Cir. 2006), "the pleadings, the discovery and disclosure materials on file, and any affidavits show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the movant is entitled to jud...
A. Educational Malpractice In Gupta v. New Britain General Hospital, 239 Conn. 574 (1996), the Connecticut Supreme Court held that educational-malpractice claims, whether sounding in tort or contract, are not permitted under state law. Gupta set forth two exceptions to this rule, each of which are based on the premise that "an educational instituti...
The Connecticut Appellate Court has recently observed that Porter's. Therefore, and consistent with the parties, the Court will assume arguendowithout deciding that this proposition of law applies to this case. Among "the general principles governing the construction of contracts" are that
Plaintiff's first claim is that when Schmitt e-mailed Vanderbilt admissions officers Gaines and Shows and informed them that Tatum had cheated on the AP Art History test, Porter's breached the "First Offense" provision of the "Academic Integrity" section of the Handbook's "Major School Rules" chapter. That provision specifies that "[i]f [Porter's] ...
Relying on the first paragraph of the "Discipline" section of the Handbook, Plaintiff asserts that when Windsor expelled Tatum without "offer[ing] Tatum a reasonable opportunity to present matters in her defense or in mitigation of her conduct in connection with the decision to expel her" (Pl.'s Opp'n at 19), Porter's breached the Handbook, which p...
Plaintiff next complains that Porter's's failure to enforce the Handbook's prohibition on "bullying and intimidation" or other "[i]nappropriate conduct" constitutes a breach of the Handbook. This claim must also be rejected. Even assuming that Tatum was subjected to bullying, intimidation, or inappropriate conduct, and further assuming that Porter'...
Plaintiff next asserts that Porter's breached the section of the Handbook that provides that Porter's "must intervene when a physical or emotional illness begins to . . . impact directly on a student, rendering her incapable of meeting her commitments," and specifies that "[i]n such cases, [Porter's] will place the student on a medical leave of abs...
Elite Miss Porter’s Slapped with Bullying Lawsuit. YouthWorker Journal. The bullying came in classes, at school dances and a dorm room by girls who called themselves “Oprichniki,” the name of a Russian attack squad notorious for torturing suspected enemies of a 16th-century czar.
Aug 3, 2021 · Miss Porter's School, 738 F. Supp. 2d 307, 323-24 (D. Conn. 2010) (finding a mandatory provision for school intervention surrounding "physical and emotional illness" too vague when it did not contain criteria by which the school would decide which illnesses warranted intervention); Madej v. Yale Univ.
Apr 11, 2000 · Doe v. Yale University. Download. PDF. Check. Treatment. Summary. holding that Gupta did not foreclose claim that university negligently failed to train and supervise plaintiff who was exposed to HIV. Summary of this case from Bass v. Miss Porter's School. See 11 Summaries. Delegate legal research to CoCounsel, your new AI legal assistant.
