Regents of University of California v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County | |
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Argued January 3, 2018 Decided March 22, 2018 | |
Full case name | The Regents of the University of California, et al., Petitioners, v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Respondent; Katherine Rosen, Real Party in Interest. |
Citation(s) | 4 Cal. 5th 607 (Cal 2018); 230 Cal. Rptr. 3d 415; 413 P3.d 656 |
Holding | |
A university has a special relationship with its students, and thus has a duty to protect them from foreseeable violence in classroom or curricular settings. | |
Court membership | |
Chief Justice | Tani Cantil-Sakauye |
Associate Justices | Carol Corrigan, Goodwin Liu, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Leondra Kruger, James A. Richman [a] |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Corrigan, joined by Cantil-Sakauye, Liu, Cuéllar, Kruger, Richman |
Concurrence | Chin |
Regents of University of California v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 4 Cal. 5th 607, 413 P.3d 656 (2018), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that universities owe a duty to protect students from foreseeable violence during curricular activities. [1] [2] In an opinion by Justice Ming Chin, the Court tossed out the 2010 case in which Katherine Rosen, a former UCLA student, sued the university for negligence when another student stabbed her in a chemistry lab. Following this ruling, Rosen can pursue the case again in court. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven initially held that the university's summary judgment motion was wrongly denied in students' action that the alleged university breached its duty of care by failing to adopt reasonable measures that would have protected her from another student's violent on-campus attack, as a public university had no general duty to protect its students from criminal acts of other students. [8] [9] [10] [11]