The trial court properly denied defendant Board of Education's motion at the close of plaintiff's case for judgment as a matter of law (CPLR 4401). Plaintiff, a special education teacher, was injured when she attempted to protect one of her students from attack by another student with a history of aggressive and disruptive behavior. "A motion for judgment at the close of all the evidence is substantially equivalent to one for a directed verdict made at that point . . . In...
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