Berberian v. Lynn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ‘‘a mentally disabled patient, who does not have the capacity to control his or her conduct, does not owe his or her caregiver a duty of care’’
• noting Cowen's capacity-based standard for mentally-disabled plaintiffs is congruent with the Court's recognition \that a child's conduct should be measured in light of his or her capacity to exercise care under all attendant circumstances\
• noting that long- standing presumption

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