A judge Tuesday approved a nearly $140,000 payment by Los Angeles Unified to a 16-year-old boy who alleged he was injured on a North Hollywood middle-school campus by another student who broke the boy’s left arm.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas D. Long gave his nod to a settlement of a lawsuit brought on behalf of the plaintiff, identified only as C.R. The boy will receive almost $70,000 after attorneys’ fees and other costs are deducted from the $139,500 settlement.
The judge ordered that the funds be placed in a blocked account created on the boy’s behalf. Long’s approval of the accord was needed because the plaintiff is a minor.
The teen, a special-needs student and North Hollywood resident, is a former Roy Romer Middle School student. The suit alleges the school administration negligently supervised a second pupil, identified as student A, who is accused of assaulting C.R. and breaking his left arm on campus on April 4, 2019.