April Malick, et al. v. Croswell-Lexington District Schools, et al.

Detroit, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory.



C.M. suffered student-on-student racial harassment while she attended the sixth, seventh,

and ninth grades in the Croswell-Lexington Community Schools District. (She was

homeschooled for eighth grade.) She was mocked, called the n-word and other racial slurs,

threatened, and physically assaulted. Things got so bad by the middle of her freshmen year that

C.M. transferred to another school district.



A few months later, C.M. sued the Croswell-Lexington Community Schools District, the

Board of Education, high school Principal Kyle Wood, and Superintendent Dan Gilbertson.

(Unless otherwise noted, we will refer to all defendants together as the "school.”) She alleged

that the school failed to adequately respond to her complaints of student-on-student racial

harassment in violation of both federal law (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as

the Equal Protection Clause) and state law (the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act).

Summary judgment granted.



Affirmed