- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: nice summary of suits involving schools and suicidal students, both for allegedly overreacting and allegedly underreacting [On Point; earlier: Apr. 20, Apr. 19, May 30]
- “If, for example, the University of Southern California here in Los Angeles were shut down every time there was a shooting in the neighborhood, the place would be out of business in less than a month.” [Dunphy @ NRO]
- Blaming video games for murder (Apr. 18) [Rangel MD; Kotaku]
- “In such public cases, your opponents attempt to take a picture of you on your worst day and insist that this is who you are as a person. Outside the doors of divorce court, I have friends, I have respect from people I work with and I have a normal relationship with my daughter. All of that is threatened whenever one enters a court room.” [AP/LA Times]
- ATLA’s nonsense on McCarran-Ferguson [ethicalesq]
- A case where a witness really was an ass. [MSNBC]
- “Far from all ‘lawsuit abuse’ is committed by personal injury lawyers.” (We agree.) [BeldarBlog via Schaeffer]
April 21 roundup
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: nice summary of suits involving schools and suicidal students, both for allegedly overreacting and allegedly underreacting [On Point; earlier: Apr. 20, Apr. 19, May 30] “If, for example, the University of Southern California here in Los Angeles were shut down every time there was a shooting in […]
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On the summary of school suits, what jumps out at me is that the authors apparently could not find a single case in which a college has been held liable over a suicidal student.
This is technically true, but misleading; schools have been unwilling to test these cases in front of a jury after judges refuse to throw them out, and have paid nontrivial sums in settlement. — TF