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Dillon v. Legg, 68 Cal. 2d 728 (1968), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of California that established the tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress.To date, it is the most persuasive decision of the most persuasive state supreme court in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century: Dillon has been favorably cited and followed by at least twenty reported out-of ...
Case Ruling Right 1962 Robinson v. California: A state cannot make a person's status as an addict a crime; only behaviors can be criminal. 1st 1968 Powell v. Texas: Similarly to Robinson v. California, a state may not criminalize the status of alcoholism itself; the state may only prohibit behaviors. 8th
the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies before an inmate can file a lawsuit United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez: 548 U.S. 140 (2006) trial court's erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant's choice of counsel entitles him to reversal of his conviction Kansas v. Marsh: 548 U.S. 163 (2006)
Rhode Island's fledgling social-equity cannabis law may be thrown into "chaos" because of a lawsuit filed by a California woman, an industry analyst says.. The lawsuit, filed by Justyna Jensen ...
Northern California hospital officials told a 31-year-old woman's family that she had checked out — when the patient had actually died and her body kept in cold storage for a year, loved ones ...
Legg, the Supreme Court of California was the first court to allow recovery for emotional distress alone – even in the absence of any physical injury to the plaintiff – in the particular situation where the plaintiff simply witnessed the death of a close relative at a distance, and was not within the "zone of danger" where the relative was ...
Montana's state psychiatric hospital has been so poorly run for decades that patients are unsafe and not treated with dignity and respect, which combined with a pattern of understaffing, lack of ...
La Chusa, 48 Cal. 3d 644 (1989), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of California that limited the scope of the tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress. The majority opinion was authored by Associate Justice David Eagleson , and it is regarded as his single most famous opinion and representative of his conservative judicial ...