Education Law,
Civil Litigation,
California Supreme Court,
California Courts of Appeal
Dec. 13, 2018
A college’s duty to protect its students from foreseeable violence
With its recent opinion, the Court of Appeal fully implemented the policy considerations behind the duty colleges and universities owe their students while engaged in curricular activities.
Alan Charles Dell'Ario
Phone: (707) 666-5351
Email: charles@dellario.org
"Chuck" Dell'Ario represented Katherine Rosen on appeal. He was admitted in 1974 and has been a certified appellate specialist since 1997. He has a state-wide practice based in Napa representing individuals and small business. He also has coached the Napa-County-champion high school mock trial team to the state finals five years in a row.
In October 2009, Katherine Rosen suffered life-threatening injuries when she was attacked in a UCLA chemistry laboratory by a fellow student, Damon Thompson, known to UCLA officials to have mental issues and a history of violence. Thompson had been expelled from university housing and ordered to undergo counseling as a condition of his enrollment that semester. Rosen sued the Regents of the University and several of its employees alleging they had been negligent in de...
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