Yates
Yates v. East Side Union High School District
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 HALEY YATES, et al., Case No. 18-cv-02966-JD
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE MOTIONS FOR
v. SUMMARY JUDGMENT
EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL Re: Dkt. Nos. 81, 83 DISTRICT, et al., 11 Defendants.
12 Plaintiffs Haley Yates (Yates) and her parents (together with Haley, the Yates family) have sued the East Side Union High School District (the District), two District employees, and a fellow student for an array of claims under Title IX, 20 U.S.C. § 1681, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132, and California state statutes, as well as for several common law torts. The case arises out of Yates’s junior year at Piedmont Hills High School (Piedmont Hills), when she was 15 years old and was physically and sexually abused by another student, Toure Oliver. Plaintiffs allege that the District conducted a biased and inadequate investigation of the situation, and that its overall response amounted to deliberate indifference to student-on-student…