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The lawsuit forced the university to disclose information indicating that two high-ranking university officials were aware of Braham’s emotional distress prior to his suicide. [3] Subsequent deaths at the university led the grand jury to take a closer look at the Braham case.
Timothy Piazza was a Penn State sophomore who died in 2017 after being hazed. His parents spoke to BI about their son, his death, and how the legal system fails hazing victims.
A hazing felony charge is being used for what's likely the first time in Michigan history. And an attorney is challenging its constitutionality. Attorney: Evidence 'woefully short' in case of man ...
Late UNH student Vinny Lirosi's mother sues Scorpion’s Bar, Sigma Chi fraternity and several frat brothers. Here are details of allegations. Mother's lawsuit: UNH student who died after going ...
The emotional distress for which monetary damages may be recovered, however, ought not to be that form of acute emotional distress or the transient emotional reaction to the occasional gruesome or horrible incident to which every person may potentially be exposed in an industrial and sometimes violent society. . . .
A common case would be a future threat of harm that would not constitute common law assault but would nevertheless cause emotional harm to the recipient. IIED was created to guard against this kind of emotional abuse, thereby allowing a victim of emotional distress to receive compensation in situations where he or she would otherwise be barred ...
Two former Penn State students pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor hazing and reckless endangerment in a high-profile case involving the death of a teenage pledge at a fraternity chapter where ...
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 ...