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France v. New York City Board of Education
40 A.D.3d 268
| N.Y. App. Div. | 2007
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Order of the Apj dilate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, entered October 18, 2005, which affirmed an order of Civil Court, New York County (Donna G. Recant, J.), entered October 8, 2003, denying defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unr limously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment in favor o: defendant dismissing the complaint.

Plaintiff school employe . has failed to raise triable issues of fact regarding whether a school safety agent, in undertaking to resolve a confrontation between plaintiff and an angry parent, had assumed an affirmative duty to act, giving rise to a special duty (see Pascucci v Board of Educ. of City of N.Y., 305 AD2d 103 [2003]). The school safety agent witnessed a confrontation between plaintiff and the parent and attempted to separate the two, advising plaintiff to walk away. When plaintiff walked back to a staircase to return to her classroom, in a matter of seconds the parent followed her into the stairwell, where he attacked her. The record does not support plaintiffs contention that the agent was aware that the allegedly belligerent parent posed a threat of violence, nor that there was inaction on the agent’s part that posed a risk of harm to plaintiff. Finally, there is no evidence of record that plaintiff relied on the agent to protect her from harm. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Gonzalez, Catterson and Malone, JJ.

Case Details

Case Name: France v. New York City Board of Education
Court Name: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Date Published: May 3, 2007
Citation: 40 A.D.3d 268
Court Abbreviation: N.Y. App. Div.
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