Joseph Strycharz v. Richard D. Cady

Summary

The court held that school administrators had a ministerial duty to prepare and distribute the student-supervision roster, but that ensuring staff members actually performed their assignments was discretionary. Because factual disputes existed about whether the roster was created and distributed, summary judgment was improper for two administrators; it was proper for the principal who delegated the assignment. The court also held that a student remains within the identifiable class of foreseeable victims when an injury off school property is proximately caused by negligent supervision while the student is under school custody, but the record did not show that the risk of students crossing the highway before school was apparent to officials. Justice Eveleigh, concurring and dissenting, would have remanded the discretionary-act claims for a new summary-judgment hearing or permitted a jury to decide whether the imminent-harm exception applied.