California’s highest court ruled on Thursday that public colleges must “protect students from foreseeable violence during curricular activities.”
While the decision in the case limits the university’s responsibility for safety to the classroom, it takes away a standard line of legal defense for colleges, said Scott D. Schneider,a lawyer who specializes in higher education with the firm Fisher Phillips. And it raises the possibility that future cases will test what other areas of the campus experience should fall under that realm of responsibility, he said, such as residence halls.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Court-Decision-May-Signal-More/242915