M.L. v. Concord, No. 22-1830 (1st Cir.)
M.L. was assaulted by a classmate on her school bus, and then faced a campaign of retaliation for reporting that. Her school undertook shoddy investigations and did nothing to stem the tide of retaliatory harassment despite her repeated reports. This suit seeks to clarify that schools cannot take some ineffective action and thereby demonstrate lack of deliberate indifference.