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Tarasoff Revisited: Nebraska Court Rejects Liability Of Psychiatrist After Patient Murders Girlfriend

JonathanTurley

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. We have discussed decisions extending Tarasoff.

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Justice Sotomayor References Rarely Used Procedure: Circuit Certification to U.S. Supreme Court

SquirePattonBoggs

When the Supreme Court has agreed to review an important question under suboptimal circumstances, certification could offer the Court a better vehicle to consider the same issue—think the student loan case, Biden v. Nebraska , without a standing quandary or this term’s Acheson Hotels v. Laufer case free from mootness.

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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

While the government can encourage criminal conspirators, the courts ask whether the offense was induced by a government agent and whether “the defendant was disposed to commit the criminal act prior to first being approached by Government agents.” Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Bryon White ruled that.