Negligent sex

Eugene Volokh and Christine Hurt (both May 17) analyze the Massachusetts case everyone is talking about, in which a man sued his girlfriend after suffering a particularly intimate (and awful-sounding) trauma in bed. The court decided that the standard for liability over sexually inflicted injury should be wantonness and recklessness, rather than mere lack of […]

Eugene Volokh and Christine Hurt (both May 17) analyze the Massachusetts case everyone is talking about, in which a man sued his girlfriend after suffering a particularly intimate (and awful-sounding) trauma in bed. The court decided that the standard for liability over sexually inflicted injury should be wantonness and recklessness, rather than mere lack of reasonable care.

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    I wonder what James Dobson would make of the decision in a recent Massachusetts lawsuit. Link via Walter Olson at Overlawyered. The case involves the type of mundane, everyday facts that one often encounters: The summary judgment record, viewed in…

  • Wanton and Reckless Sex Bad, Negligent Sex OK

    I wonder what James Dobson would make of the decision in a recent Massachusetts lawsuit. Link via Walter Olson at Overlawyered. The case involves the type of mundane, everyday facts that one often encounters: The summary judgment record, viewed in…