A Long Island judge has ruled that enough unresolved questions of fact exist to deny Cornell University summary judgment in a suit brought by a high school student injured during a summer study program on campus.
Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Daniel Palmieri ruled that the circumstances surrounding Siobhan Alban’s presence in the Cornell chemistry lab when she was hurt in June 2009, and the level of supervision by those attached to the summer study program, suggest that the college may have had an unmet duty toward her.
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