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Osorio v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 25, 2007
44 A.D.3d 553 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)

Opinion

No. 1840.

October 25, 2007.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Janice L. Bowman, J.), entered on or about September 1, 2006, which granted defendant City of New York's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Napoli Bern Ripka, LLP, New York (Denise A. Rubin of counsel), for appellants.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Norman Corenthal of counsel), for respondent.

Before: Tom, J.P., Nardelli, Sweeny and Catterson, JJ.


Defendant made a prima facie case of entitlement to summary judgment by establishing that it had no notice of prior sexual assaults at the subject pool before the alleged sexual assaults were perpetrated upon infant plaintiffs, and that the assaults were not foreseeable ( see Maheshwari v City of New York, 2 NY3d 288). Defendant also demonstrated that it took reasonable measures to oversee the pool activities and maintain the pool in a safe condition ( see Florman v City of New York, 293 AD2d 120, 127). In response, plaintiffs pointed to no prior incidents that would have alerted defendant to the forsee-ability of the sexual assaults ( see Michele M. v Board of Educ. of City of N.Y, 3 AD3d 370, 372), and otherwise failed to raise a triable issue of fact regarding whether the pool staff failed to quickly and effectively remove the perpetrator from the pool after being notified of the initial sexual assault.


Summaries of

Osorio v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 25, 2007
44 A.D.3d 553 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)
Case details for

Osorio v. City of New York

Case Details

Full title:BRITTANY OSORIO, an Infant, by Her Mother and Natural Guardian, KIM OSORIO…

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

Date published: Oct 25, 2007

Citations

44 A.D.3d 553 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)
2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 8012
843 N.Y.S.2d 853

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