25 Juin TARASOFF v. REGENTS Regarding University Out of California
Vitaly TARASOFF et al., Plaintiffs and you can Appellants, v. The brand new REGENTS Of College or university Out of Ca et al., Defendants and you can Respondents.
Decided: December 23, 1974
To your Oct twenty-seven, 1969, Prosenjit Poddar murdered Tatiana Tarasoff. step 1 Plaintiffs, Tatiana's moms and dads, allege one to two months before Poddar confided his purpose to destroy Tatiana in order to Dr. Lawrence Moore, a great psychologist employed by the newest Cowell Memorial Medical from the College out of Ca at Berkeley. They allege you to definitely with the Moore's consult, the fresh campus police briefly arrested Poddar, however, put out your as he searched intellectual. It further point out that Dr. Harvey Powelson, Moore's premium, then directed that no more step be taken to detain Poddar. Nobody warned Tatiana out-of their danger.
Concluding these particular factors neither established factors that cause action against the new therapists and you may policement on it, nor against the Regents of one's College or university of Ca as their boss, the fresh new premium courtroom sustained defendants' demurrers to help you plaintiffs' second amended problems rather than leave to help you amend. 2 It attract ensued.