Legal Opinion
Nguyen v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 7, 2018No. SJC 12329PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKafker, J.
**437 The plaintiff, Dzung Duy Nguyen, commenced a wrongful death action against the defendants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Professors Birger Wernerfelt and Drazen Prelec, and MIT assistant dean David W. Randall, arising out of the suicide of his son, Han Duy Nguyen (Nguyen). The defendants are alleged to have been negligent in not preventing Nguyen's suicide. The motion judge allowed summary judgment for MIT and the individual defendants, finding no duty to prevent Nguyen's suicide. Although we conclude that, in certain circumstances not present here, a special…
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