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Federal judge sees state-created danger in school violence.

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A federal judge in Philadelphia has expanded the so-called state-created-danger theory, refusing to dismiss a high school student's suit against school and city officials for failing to prevent a violent attack on him. The plaintiff alleges the defendants covered up a two-year escalation of school violence.

U.S. District Judge Anita Brody held that "the acts of the defendants in covering up the incidents of violence and failing to address the danger placed [the plaintiff] and other students at a greater risk of similar incidents such that it was foreseeable they would be attacked by the group of known students in the unmonitored common areas." (Gremo v. Karlin, No. 04-CV-2497, 2005 WL 503314 (E.D. Pa. Mar. 1, 2005).)

Professor Daniel Weddle of the University of Missouri-Kansas...

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