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California Courts of Appeal

Aug. 6, 2015

Appellate court wrestles with university liability for campus violence

The UC Regents may be found liable for a mentally ill UCLA student stabbing a classmate.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Six years after a UCLA chemistry student repeatedly stabbed and then slashed his classmate's
throat, a state appellate court will consider if the university did what it could
to prevent the unprovoked, almost fatal attack. Justices will hear oral arguments
on Friday in a lawsuit that attack victim Katherine Rosen brought against the Regents...

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