EPSTEIN v. CHICAGO BD. OF EDUC.

No. 80965.

687 N.E.2d 1042 (1997)

178 Ill.2d 370

227 Ill.Dec. 560

Le Roy James EPSTEIN, Appellee, v. The CHICAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied December 1, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy J. Arnold, Kralovec, Marquard, Doyle & Gibbons, Chicago, for Chicago Board of Education.

Michael W. Rathsack, Chicago, for Le Roy James Epstein.

Michael Resis, Querrey & Harrow, Ltd., Chicago, for Charles H. Bruckner & Sons.

Steven J. Kleinman, Park District Risk Management Agency, Wheaton, for Amicus Curiae Illinois Association of School.


Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

The Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) (Ill.Rev.Stat.1987, ch. 85, par. 1-101 et seq.) provides in section 3-108(a) that "neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by a failure to supervise an activity on or the use of any public property." Ill.Rev.Stat.1987, ch. 85, par. 3-108(a). This appeal addresses the interplay...

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