California Court of Appeal

In a suit alleging failure of a duty to warn, the trial court improperly granted defendant's motion for nonsuit where the record contains sufficient facts from which the jury could infer that a psychotherapist actually believed or predicted that his patient would fulfill his threat to kill.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/27/2004
• Published 07/27/2004

Judges

• BOLAND, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Stark, Rasak & Clarke and Edmund W. Clarke, Jr., Torrance, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Fonda & Fraser, Sandra F. Winter and Kristen J. Heim for Defendant and Respondent.