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Bird v. Port Byron Central School District

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Sep 28, 2001
286 A.D.2d 938 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)

Opinion

(1087) CA 01-00491.

September 28, 2001.

(Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Cayuga County, Contiguglia, J. — Summary Judgment.)

PRESENT: GREEN, J.P., SCUDDER, KEHOE, GORSKI AND LAWTON, JJ.


Order unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum:

Plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for injuries sustained by her daughter when she was pushed by a fellow seventh-grade student. Supreme Court properly granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Defendant met its initial burden of establishing that it lacked "sufficiently specific knowledge or notice of the dangerous conduct which caused injury" ( Mirand v. City of New York, 84 N.Y.2d 44, 49, see, Janukajtis v. Fallon, ___ A.D.2d ___ [decided June 18, 2001]). In opposition to the motion, plaintiff submitted proof that defendant had been previously notified that the other student threatened to "beat up" plaintiff's daughter. That proof, however, is insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact whether the other student's "acts could reasonably have been anticipated" by defendant ( Mirand v. City of New York, supra, at 49, see, Janukajtis v. Fallon, supra). The alleged threats were too remote in time to have provided defendant with "notice of a particular danger at a particular time" ( Lawes v. Board of Educ., 16 N.Y.2d 302, 306; see, Hernandez v. Christopher Robin Academy, 276 A.D.2d 592, 593; Marshall v. Cortland Enlarged City School Dist., 265 A.D.2d 782, 783; Malik v. Greater Johnstown Enlarged School Dist., 248 A.D.2d 774, 776).


Summaries of

Bird v. Port Byron Central School District

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Sep 28, 2001
286 A.D.2d 938 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
Case details for

Bird v. Port Byron Central School District

Case Details

Full title:SHERRIE M. BIRD, AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF APRIL SERVELLO, AN…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Sep 28, 2001

Citations

286 A.D.2d 938 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
731 N.Y.S.2d 417

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