In one of the first tests of a 2019 act allowing for exceptions to sovereign immunity in sexual abuse lawsuits, a Philadelphia judge ruled that a school district and its employees can be sued for a sexual assault that occurred between two students on a school bus. 

Judge Vincent Johnson of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on Thursday denied the defendants’ preliminary objections, in which the School District of Philadelphia claimed it was protected by governmental immunity. The plaintiff’s attorneys at Kline & Specter say the order appears to be the first state-level decision examining the scope of the act. 

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