Bentley v. Carroll

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a finding of violation of the reporting requirements of the Maryland Child Abuse Act would be evidence of negligence
• holding that a finding of violation of the reporting requirements of the Maryland Child Abuse Act would be evidence of negligence
• stating that the purpose of the reporting requirements is “to redress previous abuse and to prevent future incidence thereof’
• “The evident purpose behind the statute’s grant of immunity to good faith reporters is to instigate the exercise of the duty to report”
• trial court is afforded wide latitude in ruling on the admissibility of expert testimony
• “To the extent that the court’s instruction rendered all non-expert evidence irrelevant to the issue of causation, the jury was misguided in its task, and the court erred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).