From N.Y. trial court judge Lisa Headley in Doe v. Kipp New York, Inc.; the decision was handed down in August, but I just noticed it because an appellate decision earlier this month allowed the case to proceed under a pseudonym:
[P]laintiff commenced this action a year after her employment as a teacher at KIPP middle school and high school was terminated following the dissemination of a video to students depicting plaintiff in a sex act that was saved on her KIPP-issued cellular phone (the "Video"). On June 3, 2022, plaintiff alleges she became aware of the video dissemination, when students brought it to her attention that the video had just been "airdropped" to certain students at KIPP. The plaintiff maintains that the video was taken on personal time and personal property and was potentially accessed and disseminated by students and others, without her consent.
The incident was reported to KIPP administrators, … who investigated the incident. The KIPP administrators determined that the video either may have been disseminated from a KIPP student to whom the plaintiff loaned her phone, or as the plaintiff depicted, that a student airdropped the video to other students. On June 16, 2022, the plaintiff filed a police report regarding the unauthorized access and dissemination of said video, and then on June 24, 2022, the plaintiff was terminated from her employment.
Plaintiff sued alleging many sorts of discrimination, but one in particular seemed a bit unusual:
