On May 19, 2008, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Robert Miller decided in the case of Einhorn v. City of New York, that injured students of a Brooklyn private school could continue their lawsuit not only against the City of New York, but against their congregation and their school for the negligent planning, operation and control of a wedding that they were attending. The students were injured when the bleachers they were watching the wedding from collapsed underneath them. The evidence showed that the bleachers were over flowing with people. The Court held that the congregation could be sued because a jury may find that as the organizer of the wedding it had a duty to its invited guests, including the students, to use reasonable and ordinary care to insure against foreseeable risks, which included preventing overcrowding of the bleachers.
