Hess v. Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• “[Liability exists for the failure to prevent a suicide ... where an institution or mental health professional with sufficient expertise to detect suicidal tendencies and with the control necessary to care for the person’s well-being fails to take such steps.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).