Davis v. Devereux Foundation

It is only through a truncated and carefully parsed recounting of what happened to Roland Davis and a misguided perception about the governing principles of law that the majority can find no warrant for concluding that Devereux, the institution charged with his care, had a non-delegable duty to protect him from harm and that his guardian ad litem is foreclosed from proceeding, alternatively, under a respondeat superior theory. Because the majority has erred in the analysis that it has utilized and because both of those conclusions are the byproduct of that error, I respectfully dissent.

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