Funkhouser v. Wilson

How courts have described this case

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• declining to impose liability under a duty to control because the Church constitution and bylaws required complaints be in writing before disciplinary action could be taken
• church that knew of bible teacher’s conduct could be held liable for bible teacher’s sexual abuse of students, regardless of whether the abuse took place on church premises
• church that knew of bible teacher's conduct could be held liable for bible teacher's sexual abuse of students, regardless of whether the abuse took place on church premises
• “[t]he Washington courts have recognized that many special relationships give rise to a duty to prevent harms caused by the intentional or criminal conduct of third parties”
• “Summary judgment dismissal of negligence claims is proper if the defendant owed no duty to the plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).