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Preston Hollow People:

Tom Melsheimer is the managing principal at Fish & Richardson in Dallas; his e-mail address is melsheimer@fr.com. Craig Smith is judge of the 192nd Civil District Court in Dallas County; his e-mail address is csmith@dallascourts.org.

Now that one of this city’s most respected and elite learning institutions has been found “grossly negligent” and handed a $9.2 million judgment for shortcomings in its response after a teacher had sex with a student, the sordid details and raging emotions spilling out of the courtroom and the verdict’s false finality leave us with an unsettled “now what?” feeling.

Download the reprint of the commentary by Tom Melsheimer and Craig Smith published in the Preston Hollow People newspaper here.

What’s frustrating is that the verdict doesn’t move either side in the direction of finality or closure. As recently as last week, Episcopal School of Dallas leadership remained defiant, continuing to partially blame the victim and her family, calling the verdict “wrong ” and claiming they didn’t get their day in court. Of course an appeal is already in the works.

http://www.androvett.com/clientuploads/tom-melsheimer-smith-esd-verdict-commentary.pdf

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