· 5/12/2000
Juarez v. Boy Scouts of America, Inc.
Citations
- 97 Cal. Rptr. 2d 12
- 81 Cal. App. 4th 377
- 2000 Cal. App. LEXIS 562
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- disapproved on other grounds 19 by Brown v. USA Taekwondo, 11 Cal. 5th 204, 222 n.9 (2021)
- ‘‘[t]he [Boy Scouts of America, Inc.,] acknowl- edge[s], as [it] must, the possibility exists that pedophiles will be attracted to scouting to gain legitimate access to young boys in order to seduce the more susceptible ones into sexual activity’’
- “it should be reasonably foreseeable to the Scouts that a child participating in scouting might fall prey to a sexual predator, with no documented history of such proclivities, who is serving as an adult volunteer in the child’s scouting troop.”
- evidence that defendant, Boy Scouts of America, Inc., had ‘‘failed to take reasonable steps to see that the information in the [Youth Protection Program] was likely to be communicated to the scouts, parents, or adult leaders of’’ its constituent troops supported negligence claim
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Judges: Ruvolo
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