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STUDENT ON STUDENT ASSAULT WAS NOT FORESEEABLE, THEORIES IN THE PLEADINGS WHICH WERE NOT MENTIONED IN THE NOTICE OF CLAIM PROPERLY DISMISSED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant school district’s motion for summary judgment should have been granted in this student-on-student assault case. The assault arose abruptly and and lasted 20 to 30 seconds and was not foreseeable. In addition, the theories of liability not mentioned in the notice of claim, but asserted in the pleadings, should have been dismissed:

… [T]he School District established, prima facie, that the alleged assault by the fellow student was an unforeseeable act and that the School District had no actual or constructive notice of prior conduct of the students involved here which was similar to the subject incident … . Moreover, the School District established, prima facie, that “the incident occurred in so short a period of time that any negligent supervision on its part was not a proximate cause of the infant plaintiff’s injuries” … . …

“[T]he prima facie showing which a defendant must make on a motion for summary judgment is governed by the allegations of liability made by the plaintiff in the pleadings” … . However, if the defendant is a municipality, the plaintiff may not raise in the complaint causes of action or legal theories that were not directly or indirectly mentioned in the notice of claim and that “substantially alter” the nature of the claim or add a new theory of liability … . … By submitting evidence that the notice of claim did not mention … causes of action and legal theories, the School District established its … entitlement to judgment as a matter of law dismissing all of the causes of action, other than negligent supervision, that were asserted in the complaint and bill of particulars against the School District … . Meyer v Magalios, 2019 NY Slip Op 02336, Second Dept 3-27-19

 

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