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MOTION TO STRIKE SCHOOL’S ANSWER FOR SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE PROPERLY DENIED, SCHOOL’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION ACTION PROPERLY GRANTED, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED BY ANOTHER STUDENT (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined Supreme Court properly granted defendant board of education's motion for summary judgment in this student-on-student assault case. In addition, Supreme Court properly denied plaintiff's motion to strike the answer based upon spoliation of evidence (a video):

The complaint alleges that L.F., an infant, sustained injuries when he was picked up and dropped on his head by a fellow student at Mount Vernon High School. The plaintiff, suing individually and as the parent and natural guardian of L.F., commenced this action against the defendant, Mount Vernon Board of Education, to recover damages for personal injuries, alleging that it failed to provide adequate supervision. * * *

… [A] video recording which captured the incident from a distance could not be located after it had been viewed by the plaintiff, the police, and school administrators. According to the Principal of Mount Vernon High School, he did not know when the video disappeared but he asserted that its disappearance was accidental and a search had been conducted to locate it. Under these circumstances, where the defendant lost the video recording after having provided it for viewing to the plaintiff and others, the plaintiff would still be able to establish her case at trial despite the absence of the video. * * *

The defendant submitted evidence that L.F. and the other student had no previous interaction and that the other student's prior disciplinary record did not include any violent act, thereby establishing that the defendant had no specific knowledge or notice of any prior conduct such that L.F.'s alleged assault … could reasonably have been anticipated … . Francis v Mount Vernon Bd. of Educ., 2018 NY Slip Op 05916, Second Dept 8-29-18

NEGLIGENCE (MOTION TO STRIKE SCHOOL'S ANSWER FOR SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE PROPERLY DENIED, SCHOOL'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION ACTION PROPERLY GRANTED, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED BY ANOTHER STUDENT (SECOND DEPT))/EVIDENCE (NEGLIGENCE, SPOLIATION, MOTION TO STRIKE SCHOOL'S ANSWER FOR SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE PROPERLY DENIED, SCHOOL'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION ACTION PROPERLY GRANTED, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED BY ANOTHER STUDENT (SECOND DEPT))/NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION (EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW, MOTION TO STRIKE SCHOOL'S ANSWER FOR SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE PROPERLY DENIED, SCHOOL'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION ACTION PROPERLY GRANTED, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED BY ANOTHER STUDENT (SECOND DEPT))/ASSAULT, LIABILITY IN NEGLIGENCE (EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW, MOTION TO STRIKE SCHOOL'S ANSWER FOR SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE PROPERLY DENIED, SCHOOL'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION ACTION PROPERLY GRANTED, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED BY ANOTHER STUDENT (SECOND DEPT))/EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW (NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION, MOTION TO STRIKE SCHOOL'S ANSWER FOR SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE PROPERLY DENIED, SCHOOL'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION ACTION PROPERLY GRANTED, PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED BY ANOTHER STUDENT (SECOND DEPT))

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