ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL v. MAYNOLDI

No. 3D08-1648.

30 So.3d 533 (2010)

ARCHBISHOP COLEMAN F. CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL, INC., etc., Archdiocese of Miami, Inc., etc., Archdiocese of Miami through Archbishop John Favolora, United National Insurance Company and The National Catholic Risk Retention Group, Inc., Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Jose Luis MAYNOLDI and Olga Maynoldi, individually, and as legal guardians of Gabriel Maynoldi, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 14, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli, Esco & Dimatteo, and Michael A. Mullen, Benjamin M. Esco and Anne C. Sullivan, Coral Gables; Carlton Fields, and Wendy F. Lumish, Miami, Alina Alonso and Andrew D. Manko, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Deehl & Carlson, and David L. Deehl, Michele K. Feinzig, and Joanne R. Telischi, Coral Gables, for appellees.

Carr Allison, and Harold R. Mardenborough, Jr., as Amicus Curiae, for appellants.

Before RAMIREZ, C.J., and SUAREZ and SALTER, JJ.


SALTER, J.

In this appeal and cross-appeal we review a parochial high school's alleged liability for the tragic results of a 17-year-old student's consumption of alcohol at, and operation of an automobile after, an end-of-school-year party at a private residence. Despite three novel circumstances presented by the trial record, we conclude again that:

At some point, we believe that a school's obligation of reasonable supervision must come to an end and the...

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