Legal Opinion
Williams v. Weatherstone
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 13, 2014PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Read, J.
In Pratt v Robinson (39 NY2d 554, 561 [1976]), we held that a school district that "undertake[s] to transport students” assumes a common-law duty to “perform so much as it ha[s] undertaken in a careful and prudent manner.” We are called upon to decide whether this duty had arisen here where a child was struck by a car before the approaching school bus stopped to pick her up. We conclude that defendant Jordan-Elbridge Central School District (the District) did not owe this or any other common-law duty to the child under the circumstances presented.
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2Cases cited16 opinions
- Mirand v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1994
- Anthony Gagliardo and Adele Gagliardo v. Arlington Central School District, Docket No. 06-1494-CvCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2007
- McLean v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 2009
- Pratt v. RobinsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Ernest v. Red Creek Central School DistrictNew York Court of Appeals · 1999
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- Elissa v. City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 2014
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