Ochs v. Borrelli

How courts have described this case

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• “raising a child from birth to maturity is a costly enterprise, and hence injurious, ... parental pleasure softens but does not eradicate economic reality”
• following births of two children with orthopedic defects, plaintiff with history of miscarriage and ovarian surgery sought to prevent subsequent pregnancy
• following births of two children with orthopedic defects, plaintiff with history of miscarriage and ovarian surgery sought to prevent subsequent pregnancy
• in an action for negligent tubal ligation parents recovered full child-rearing costs instead of compensation limited to mild birth defect
• questionable in light of dicta in Hickman v. Group Health Plan, Inc., 396 N.W.2d 10 (Minn. 1986)
• no inconsistency with public policy that parental pleasure softens but does not eradicate economic reality

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).