McCollum v. CBS, INC.

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• dismissing claim against defendants who created and disseminated a song called “Suicide Solution” and who allegedly knew or should have known the song might influence susceptible individuals because decedent’s suicide was unforeseeable
• “Reasonable persons understand musical lyrics and poetic communications as the figurative expressions which they are. No rational person would mistake musical lyrics and poetry for literal commands or directives for immediate action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).