A state appeals court says a woman who was attacked by a classmate at UCLA cannot hold the university responsible. A division of the 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled this week that a public university has no general obligation to protect its students from crimes committed by other students. The 2-1 ruling came in a negligence lawsuit filed against the University of California regents by Katherine Rosen. Her attorney says he'll appeal. Rosen was attacked with a kitchen knife in 2009 in a chemistry lab. Damon Thompson was found not guilty by reason of insanity...
Full story at http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2015/10/08/3846187_appeals-court-sides-with-california.html
(Bette Billet alerted me to this story which also appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/california-court-says-college-students-cannot-expect-protection-from-classroom-crimes/105715)
Now I know legal types will differentiate an action by someone insane from an action by someone without such a defense and whether the university is responsible for one or the other. But still...
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