New York Court of Appeals

Scupella Bell, Appellant v. Board of Education of the City of New York, Respondent

October 16, 199790 N.Y.2d 944

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division, holding that the Board of Education’s failure to adequately supervise its students was a proximate cause of the plaintiff’s rape because the intervening criminal act was a foreseeable consequence of the lack of supervision.