Elford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that recognizing duty of professional to abuser would be contrary to public policy
• refusing to recognize a cause of action against a therapist whose incorrect evaluations led to false charges of sexual assault
• declining to ‘‘recognize that psychiatrists, or other mental health professionals, who evaluate children for evidence of sexual abuse, owe a duty to exercise reasonable care in the performance of the evaluation, to the person suspected of committing the abuse’’
• mental health professionals have no duty to third persons when performing sexual assault abuse evaluations of children
• mental health professional engaged to evaluate whether sexual abuse occurred owes no duty of care to alleged sexual abuser
• failure to impose duty so that patient may be compensated from psychiatrist who negligently accused patient of sexually abusing his child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).