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Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Friday, January 26, 2024

Law immunizes school social worker in teen's suicide

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PickPik A public school social worker is immune from liability in the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in...
Monday, April 24, 2023

No right to physician aid in dying, Mass. high court holds, rejecting analogy to same-sex marriage right

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In 2017, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and D.C. residents protest to protect "death with dignity" law from congressional med...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Motel not liable for guest's suicide, court rules, despite family warning of risk, asking for room number

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CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday rejected Motel 6 liability for the suicide of a guest. The Septembe...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Death case against Robinhood tests common law disfavor for liability upon negligence leading to suicide

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U.S. CFPB images The family of a 20-year-old college student who committed suicide has sued the lately notorious Robinhood financial ser...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Court refuses to dismiss Harvard in student-suicide suit

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The Massachuetts Superior Court, per Judge Michael D. Ricciuti, denied Harvard University's motion to dismiss a negligence claim brought...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Mass. supreme court: MIT owed no duty in suicide case

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Today the high court of Massachusetts held no duty , as a matter of law, in a wrongful death case of attenuated duty and causation in which ...