Riedl v. Western Placer Unified School Dist. CA3
Plaintiff Zachary Riedl was injured in a fight with another student, Cody B., on their way to their high school but off school property, specifically, on the sidewalk or street in front of the school. Riedl sued Western Placer Unified School District for negligence, but the trial court granted summary judgment because Education Code section 44808 provides a school with immunity for a student’s injuries that did not occur on school property and under circumstances in which the school did not undertake to supervise the students on their way to school. The trial court’s ruling was consistent with precedent of this court, Bassett v. Lakeside Inn, Inc. (2006) 140 Cal.App.4th 863, 871 (Bassett).
Riedl appeals. Ignoring Bassett and similar authorities in his opening brief, he argues that, because violence between Riedl and Cody B. was foreseeable, the school was negligent in failing to supervise the combatants. As did the trial court, we conclude that, under Education Code sectio
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