COTTO v. BD. OF EDUC. OF CITY OF NEW HAVEN

No. 18339.

984 A.2d 58 (2009)

294 Conn. 265

Jamell Woods COTTO v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF NEW HAVEN et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 15, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick R. Williams, assistant corporation counsel, for the appellants (named defendant et al.).

William B. Wynne, for the appellee (plaintiff).

ROGERS, C.J., and KATZ, PALMER, VERTEFEUILLE, ZARELLA and McLACHLAN, Js.


KATZ, J.

The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the defendants, the board of education of the city of New Haven (city) and certain public school officials in the city,1 are immune from liability for injuries that the plaintiff, Jamell Woods Cotto, sustained when he slipped on a wet bathroom floor at the Roberto Clemente School (school), one of the city's public schools, while working as a director of a summer youth program at the school...

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