Downingtown Area School District claiming qualified immunity in case of counselor allegedly attacked by student
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Downingtown Area School District s attempt to dismiss suit from counselor attacked by student is rejected
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Sacchetta | Sacchetta & Baldino
PHILADELPHIA – A Chester County woman continues to stand by her claims that a local school district did not warn her that she was assigned to work with a student who had shown violent behavior, and as a result, that student attacked and injured her.
Hieshia LeGrande of Phoenixville first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 7 versus Downingtown Area School District and Downingtown Area School Authority of Downingtown, plus Lionville Middle School, of Exton.
“Plaintiff was sent to defendant Lionville Middle School and subsequently assigned to help a 7th Grade student at the defendant school. Defendants knew or should have known of the student’s dangerous propensities, behavioral issues and violent tendencies. Despite this knowledge, defendants failed to warn or alert plaintiff of same,” the suit said.
Connor | Connor Weber & Oberlies
PHILADELPHIA – A Chester County school district is attempting for the second time to dismiss a lawsuit from a plaintiff alleging it did not warn her about working with a student who had shown violent behavior prior to being attacked and injured by that same student, has not proven her case.
Hieshia LeGrande of Phoenixville first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 7 versus Downingtown Area School District and Downingtown Area School Authority of Downingtown, plus Lionville Middle School, of Exton.
“Plaintiff was sent to defendant Lionville Middle School and subsequently assigned to help a 7th Grade student at the defendant school. Defendants knew or should have known of the student’s dangerous propensities, behavioral issues and violent tendencies. Despite this knowledge, defendants failed to warn or alert plaintiff of same,” the suit said.