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Why Save Him? He Didn’t Say “Pretty Please”

Monday, July 19, 2010

But if you do attend law school you can learn why it is perfectly lawful to watch idly while someone struggles not to drown:  ”People Offer No Help as Man Struggles in Water.” Fortunately passerby Paul Pinto, possessing the empathy gene lacking from others who were ready to let Dale McNulty drown because they thought [...]

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Duty to Rescue

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Having discussed the bystander rule in the first week of Introduction to Law and with tort law coming up this week, this chart “of state statutes that impose a duty to rescue crime victims, or report crimes” from The Volokh Conspiracy is timely.  The chart covers only ten statutes that apply to the general public, [...]

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