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Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California , 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 ( Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient.
The first case, Tarasoff I, imposed a "duty to warn". For a number of reasons, this caused great uproar within the mental health profession. The (California) Supreme Court revisited the case a year-and-a-half later. They modified the first case, replacing a "duty to warn" with a "duty to protect". This distinction between the first and second ...
Thus, the facts of the case are available in copious newspaper and magazine articles published in the early 1990s. On September 13, 1990, in Lexington, South Carolina, the 14-year-old Grant bludgeoned her mother 13 times with a crystal candlestick , crushing her skull.
In medical law and medical ethics, the duty to protect is the responsibility of a mental health professional to protect patients and others from foreseeable harm. [1] If a client makes statements that suggest suicidal or homicidal ideation, the clinician has the responsibility to take steps to warn potential victims, and if necessary, initiate involuntary commitment.
Mitchell "Mitch" Garabedian (born July 17, 1951) [1] is a lawyer known for representing sexual abuse victims in the Boston area during the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal, including the cases against Paul Shanley, John Geoghan, and the Archdiocese of Boston.
The trial of Karen Read, accused of killing her boyfriend, police officer John O’Keefe, on a snowy night in 2022, starts today in suburban Boston. The case has sparked conspiracy theories ...
The case has garnered national attention because the defense alleges that state and local law enforcement officials framed girlfriend Karen Read and allowed the real killer to go free.
The Las Vegas Police Department released graphic new photos that provide a chilling look inside Stephen Paddock's 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room, from which he committed the worst mass ...