California Court of Appeal

Dismissal of complaint for negligence alleging that defendants were liable for the criminal behavior of four residents who injured plaintiffs after escaping from defendants' drug rehabilitation program is affirmed as a residential treatment facility does not owe a duty to the general public to exercise ordinary care to control the criminal behavior of its program participants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2007
• Published 08/29/2007

Judges

• POLLAK, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bradford C. Floyd, Eureka, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wayne H. Maire, Cheryl A. Miskei, Maire & Beasley, Redding, for Defendant and Respondent, Humboldt Recovery Center, Inc., Paul A. Brisso, William F. Mitchell, Mitchell, Brisso, DeLaney & Vrieze, Eureka, for Defendant and Respondent, Center Point, Inc.