Eugene Volokh and Christine Hurt (both May 17) analyze the Massachusetts case everyone is talking about, in which a man sued his girlfriend after suffering a particularly intimate (and awful-sounding) trauma in bed. The court decided that the standard for liability over sexually inflicted injury should be wantonness and recklessness, rather than mere lack of reasonable care.
Negligent sex
Eugene Volokh and Christine Hurt (both May 17) analyze the Massachusetts case everyone is talking about, in which a man sued his girlfriend after suffering a particularly intimate (and awful-sounding) trauma in bed. The court decided that the standard for liability over sexually inflicted injury should be wantonness and recklessness, rather than mere lack of […]
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Wanton and Reckless Sex Bad, Negligent Sex OK
I wonder what James Dobson would make of the decision in a recent Massachusetts lawsuit. Link via Walter Olson at Overlawyered. The case involves the type of mundane, everyday facts that one often encounters: The summary judgment record, viewed in…
Wanton and Reckless Sex Bad, Negligent Sex OK
I wonder what James Dobson would make of the decision in a recent Massachusetts lawsuit. Link via Walter Olson at Overlawyered. The case involves the type of mundane, everyday facts that one often encounters: The summary judgment record, viewed in…