School District Liability

Representative Cases

 

• A teacher brings a horse to an elementary school as part of Halloween festivities for the outdoor event. As the horse is walked into the area, a loudspeaker squelches. The horse is spooked becoming uncontrollable causing injuries to students and parents.

• A teacher in a special needs classroom did not believe that a student needed to use the bathroom. The special needs child had no alternative but to urinate into a cup in the classroom.

• A 10th grader was participating in a volleyball tournament in a public-school gymnasium. She slipped and twisted her knee tearing her ACL. The District was sued for a defectively old and poorly maintained gym floor.

• A special needs student who cannot express himself verbally was seated on the hot asphalt playground in the summer in the Valley during an assembly. The student suffered burns to his lower extremities.

• A parent visiting her daughter at a high school slipped and fell descending a set of outdoor stairs. The stairway was contiguous with a plantar running the length of the stairway. The sprinklers watering the plants allegedly malfunctioned with water flowing over the sides of the plantar causing the dangerous and slippery stairs.

• During a wrestling match at a middle school, a student was injured when he struck the perimeter wall during a match. It was alleged that the wrestling ring was too close to the perimeter wall.

• A teacher allowed a middle school student to climb up onto a desk to remove a poster from the wall. The student fell and sustained injuries.