IS LAUSD LIABLE FOR EX-SUPERINTENDENT RAMON CORTINES' "ROMANTIC" ADVENTURES? (VIDEO #10)
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In the law there is the notion of respondeat superior, which basically holds the employer responsible for the acts of their employee performed during the course of performing their duties as an employee. Since LAUSD has reasonably already attempted to stop sexual harassment to the best of its ability by already mandating sexual harassment training for all its employees, it would seem that it has not only fulfilled its duty as employer, but also shifted the duty not to sexually harass to ex-Superintendent Ramon Cortines. What more could LAUSD have been reasonably required to do to avoid legal liability and shift it to Cortines who was not only charged with enforcing District sexual harassment policy and