Foster v. Purdue University Chapter, the Beta Mu of Beta Theta Pi

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the plaintiff’s argument that a national fraternity had assumed a duty to control its members by distributing a pamphlet containing information about alcohol abuse, sanctioning a chapter for alcohol- related incidents, and inspecting a chapter.
• intoxicated freshman fraternity member rendered quadriplegic by diving onto makeshift waterslide at fraternity event
• “Agency is a relationship which results from manifestation of consent by one party to another. The elements of agency are consent and control. An agent must acquiesce to the arrangement, and be subject to the principal’s control.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).