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SCHOOL NOT LIABLE FOR OFF-CAMPUS ASSAULT.

The Second Department, over a dissent, determined plaintiff-student’s complaint against the school was properly dismissed. Plaintiff was attacked by several alleged gang members shortly after leaving school grounds. The court held there was no evidence plaintiff was released by the school into a dangerous situation which the school had a hand in creating:

Here, the defendant established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that the assault occurred at a time when the plaintiff was not on school property and no longer in the defendant’s custody or under its control and was, thus, outside of the orbit of its authority … . The defendant also demonstrated, prima facie, that the plaintiff was not released into a foreseeably hazardous setting that the defendant had a hand in creating … . Diaz v Brentwood Union Free Sch. Dist., 2016 NY Slip Op 05485, 2nd Dept 7-13-16

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