Legal Opinion

Johnson v. Rochester City School District

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 21, 2012Published

1Opinion of the Court

Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action seeking damages for injuries sustained by her son when a fellow student assaulted him at a city transit bus stop across the street from their school building after school’s dismissal. Defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the grounds that it had no duty to supervise students off school premises after dismissal from school; that the assault could not have been foreseen or prevented; and that the level of supervision that it provided was not a proximate cause of the injuries to plaintiffs son. We agree with defendant that…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Norton v. Canandaigua City School DistrictAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
  2. Harker v. Rochester City School DistrictAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
  3. Bowers v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002

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