Topic
Suicide
128 published works
The Justice Gap
Police ‘determined to do more’ in response to domestic abuse driven suicides
By Gia Khaira
The National Police Chiefs’ Council has said officers are ‘determined to do more’ to hold abusers to account where their victims have been driven to die by suicide. However, forces face…
Joe Raczynski | Technologist
The Changing Face of Friendship – The Race to AI Intimacy
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Camille Carlton began with a chilling observation: “Many people find it easy and some satisfying to engage in ongoing relationships with AI. This development has ramifications for…
Pennsylvania Divorce and Domestic Relations Blog
Yes, It Seems that a Chatbot can Kill Your Child
By Mark Ashton
It is not my mission to promote hysteria. In fact, the quiet mission of blogs such as this is to try to calm anxieties in the world of separation and…
EvidenceProf Blog
Supreme Court of Nevada Rejects “Suicide Rule” as a Complete Defense to Medical Malpractice Claims
By Colin Miller
The Supreme Court of Nevada issued an opinion yesterday in a case it framed as follows:This matter is one of first impression in Nevada and asks whether we should adopt…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
Iowa Supreme Court: Union Pacific Railroad not liable for worker’s suicide
By Rox Laird
The Union Pacific Railroad Co. is not liable under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) for the death of an employee who took his own life from emotional distress caused…
TortsProf Blog
NV: Supreme Court Declines to Adopt Suicide Rule in Med Mal Cases
Bourne v. Valdes, ___ Nev. ___, ___, 559 P.3d 361, 363, 365 (2024) (declining “to adopt a rule that a patient's suicide relieves a medical provider of liability for the…
Legal Profession Blog
In Pain
Ohio Disciplinary Counsel had filed a complaint alleging, in part, misconduct arising from threats of suicide by the attorney that were communicated to the Wooster Police DepartmentLater that day, WPD…
Bill Madden's Blog
Medical: Voluntary assisted dying & ‘carriage service’ criminal provisions regarding suicide.
By Bill Madden
Carr v Attorney-General (Cth) [2023] FCA 1500 per Abraham J (on Federal Court) The applicant, Dr Nicholas Carr, is a doctor authorised to undertake the functions of a ‘co-ordinating medical…
Health Law Prof Blog
IPC 309- An Anachronistic Colonial Remnant Incompatible With Modern Criminal Law?
Akshath Indusekhar (O.P. Jindal Global Law School), IPC 309- An Anachronistic Colonial Remnant Incompatible With Modern Criminal Law? (2023):The arguments surrounding decriminalisation of suicide have been no stranger to Indian…
California Personal Injury Law Case Notes
Can a school district be held accountable for a student’s death by suicide?
It depends. A New Jersey School district paid $9.1 million to parents of bullied student, Mallory Grossman who died by suicide in 2017. See news report here. But most states…