Legal Opinion
Cotto v. BD. OF EDUC. OF CITY OF NEW HAVEN
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 15, 2009No. SC 18339PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KATZ, J.
The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the defendants, the board of education of the city of New Haven (city) and certain public school officials in the city, 1 are immune from liability for injuries that the plaintiff, Jamell Woods Cotto, sustained when he slipped on a wet bathroom floor at the Roberto Clemente School (school), one of the city’s public schools, while working as a director of a summer youth program at the school. The trial court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff on his amended one count complaint alleging that, pursuant to General Statutes §…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Shore v. Town of StoningtonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
- Evon v. AndrewsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1989
- Burns v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
- Sestito v. City of GrotonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
- Purzycki v. Town of FairfieldSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1998
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3Cited by17 opinions
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