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OF EDUCATION OF THE TOWN OF GLASTONBURY ET AL. (AC 43375)

Elgo, Alexander and Sheldon, Js.

Syllabus

The plaintiffs, G, a high school student, and his mother, sought damages from the defendants, the Board of Education of the Town of Glastonbury and several school administrators and educators as a result of injuries G sustained while playing football at the high school. The plaintiffs had brought a previous action in connection with G’s injuries in which the trial court granted the defendants’ motion to strike and thereafter rendered judgment for the defendants after the plaintiffs failed toreplead. The plaintiffs then appealed to this court but thereafter withdrew the appeal. The defendants in both actions were the same with the exception of a football coach who was named as a defendant in each case. The defendants in the present action filed a motion for summary judgment, claiming that the doctrine of res judicata barred the present action regardless of any additional facts or different theoriesof liability that the plaintiffs alleged. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, concluding that the plaintiffs’claims were barred by the doctrine of res judicata. The plaintiffs thereafter appealed to this court. Held that the judgment of the trial courtwas affirmed, as the issues were properly resolved in that court’s thorough and well reasoned memorandum of decision, which this court adopted as a proper statement of the facts, issues and applicable law.

Argued March 10—officially released April 20, 2021

Procedural HistoryAction to recover damages for, inter alia, the defendants’ alleged negligence, and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of NewHaven and transferred to the judicial district of Hartford, where the court, Hon. Robert B. Shapiro , judgetrial referee, granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and rendered judgment thereon, from which the plaintiffs appealed to this court. Affirmed

. Mark S. Kliger, with whom, on the brief, was Irving J. Pinsky , for the plaintiffs (appellants).

Keith R. Rudzik , for the defendants (appellees).Opinion PER CURIAM. The plaintiffs, Gabriel Couloute and his mother, April Couloute, 1 appeal from the summary judgment rendered by the trial court in favor of the defendants, the Board of Education of the Town of Glastonbury; Alan Bookman, Superintendent of Schools; Nancy E. Bean, Principal of Glastonbury High School (high school); Trish Witkin, athletic director at the high school; and Mark Alexander, junior varsity football coach at the high school. On appeal, the plaintiffs claim that the court improperly concluded that the doctrine of res judicata barred the present action. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

In 2016, the plaintiffs commenced a civil action (2016action) regarding injuries that Gabriel allegedly sustained while engaging in interscholastic football activities at the high school during the 2016–2017 school year. The defendants in that action were identical to those in the present case, with one exception—Varsity Football Coach Scott Daniels was named as a defendant instead of Alexander. In their complaint, the plaintiffs set forth twenty-four counts alleging battery, fraud, negligence, due process violations, and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. See 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq. (2012). The defendants filed a motion to strike the complaint in its entirety, which the court granted by memorandum of decision dated January 5, 2018. When the plaintiffs failed to replead, the court rendered judgment in favor of the defendants. Although the plaintiffs filed an appeal of that judgment with this court, they subsequently withdrew that appeal.

Approximately two months after they withdrew the appeal, the plaintiffs initiated the present action. They alleged twenty counts in their complaint sounding in negligence and recklessness, all related to a concussion that Gabriel allegedly sustained while playing football at the high school on October 20, 2016. The defendants thereafter moved for summary judgment, claiming that the judgment in the 2016 action ‘‘was rendered on the merits, and the doctrine of res judicata is an absolute bar to this second action on the same matters/causes of actions and any others that could have been raised in the [2016 action] regardless of what additional facts or different theories of liability are raised in this second action.’’ The plaintiffs filed an opposition to that motion, and the court heard argument from the parties on July8, 2019. On August 29, 2019, the court issued a memorandum of decision rendering summary judgment in favor of the defendants, concluding that the doctrine of res judicata barred the plaintiffs’ claims. The plaintiffs now challenge the propriety of that determination.

Our examination of the pleadings, affidavits, andother proof submitted, as well as the briefs and arguments of the parties, persuades us that the judgmentshould be affirmed. The issues properly were resolved in the court’s thorough and well reasoned memorandum of decision. See Couloute v. Board of Education , Superior Court, judicial district of Hartford, Docket No. CV18-6106959-S (August 29, 2019) (reprinted at 203 Conn.App. 124, A.3d ). We therefore adopt that memorandum of decision as a proper statement of the relevant facts, issues, and applicable law, as it would serve no useful purpose for us to repeat the discussion contained therein. See Citizens Against Overhead Power Line Construction v. Connecticut Siting Council , 311 Conn. 259, 262, 86 A.3d 463 (2014); Phadnis v. Great Expression Dental Centers of Connecticut, P.C. , 170 Conn. App. 79, 81, 153 A.3d 687 (2017).

The judgment is affirmed.

1 For clarity, we refer to Gabriel Couloute and April Couloute individually by their first names and collectively as the plaintiffs.