McLaughlin v. Sullivan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an attorney did not have a duty to prevent her client’s suicide
• holding that an attorney did not have a duty to prevent her client's suicide
• suggesting that liability against a psychiatrist would be inappropriate over a non-hospitalized patient
• \ Duty and foreseeability are inextricably bound together. The risk reasonably to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.\
• “Duty and foreseeability are inextricably bound together. The risk reasonably to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.”
• classes of defendants that potentially owe such a duty include jails, hospitals, mental hospitals, reform schools, psychiatrists, and other mental health trained professionals

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).