Thursday, May 1, 2014

Suicide Suit Involving Princeton Is 'Bellwether,' according to Brett Sokolow in The Wall Street Journal

"This [case] is going to be a bellwether for all colleges and universities," said Brett Sokolow, an attorney with the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, a consultancy group for higher-education institutions.
Many past suicide-related cases against schools, Mr. Sokolow said, have been wrongful-death lawsuits from families of students who took their lives on campus. The Princeton case is unusual, he said, "because the student is not dead…this is an action where the student says his rights were violated."

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