Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “recklessness is typically a criterion for determining whether punitive damages are warranted in negligence cases”
• explaining that a trial court also abuses its discretion in making a decision “which is against logic or reasoning and which causes an injustice to the complaining party”
• stating an abuse of discretion will be found “where the trial court applied an incorrect legal standard”
• “Recklessness ‘entails a mental element that is not necessarily required to establish gross negligence.’” (quoting Dan B. Dobbs, The Law of Torts 351 (2001))
• “Recklessness as conscious disregard [under § 46] requires that the actor be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm.”
• “Recklessness cannot require that the actor aim the conduct toward a specific person or a specific 21 result, for to do so would contradict the inattentive and thoughtless nature of disregard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).