Charter Sch. for Applied Tech. v Board of Educ. for City Sch. Dist. of City of Buffalo
2013 NY Slip Op 02985 [105 AD3d 1465]
April 26, 2013
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 29, 2013


Charter School for Applied Technologies et al., Respondents, v Board of Education for City School District of City of Buffalo, Appellant. (Appeal No. 2.)

[*1] Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, Buffalo (James P. Milbrand of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf, Cunningham & Coppola LLC, Buffalo (Lisa A. Coppola of counsel), for plaintiffs-respondents.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County (John A. Michalek, J.), entered March 30, 2012. The judgment awarded plaintiffs the sum of $6,873,646.91 against defendant.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously vacated without costs, the amended order entered March 5, 2012 is modified on the law by denying those parts of plaintiffs' motion with respect to the first and second causes of action in their entirety and by granting defendant summary judgment dismissing the first cause of action, and as modified the amended order is affirmed and the matter is remitted to Supreme Court, Erie County, for a trial on the issue of liability.

Same memorandum as in Charter School for Applied Tech. v Board of Educ. for City School Dist. of City of Buffalo (105 AD3d 1460 [2013]). Present—Smith, J.P., Peradotto, Lindley, Valentino and Whalen, JJ.