In a unanimous decision,
the court granted a petition to review a 2-1 ruling by the 2nd
District Court of Appeals last year that dismissed a lawsuit filed against
the University of California regents by former UCLA student
Katherine Rosen, who in 2010 was stabbed and had her throat slashed by a
mentally ill classmate in her chemistry lab. The lawsuit alleged that in
the months before the attack, UCLA officials and professors had received
reports of disturbing behavior by Rosen's assailant, Damon Thompson.
Thompson had been diagnosed
as having paranoid delusions, was possibly suffering from schizophrenia and had
been expelled from student housing after a physical altercation with another
resident, according to court documents. UCLA failed to respond
to the warnings, and did not alert students to his potentially violent
behavior, the lawsuit alleged.
In 2010, a judge found
Thompson, who admitted to the stabbing, not guilty by reason of insanity.
A different judge
previously denied a request by the UC regents to dismiss the lawsuit. That
decision was appealed, resulting in the appellate court ruling…
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