Diocese not liable for expelled student’s suicide

GRETNA, La. — A Louisiana appeals court reversed a state court’s finding that the New Orleans Catholic Archdiocese was liable for the off-campus suicide of a 17-year-old student who had been expelled from its Catholic high school that day for showing up to school after drinking and getting into a fight. Suicide “is not within the class of risks that a school’s disciplinary function is designed to guard against” and the boy did not exhibit “any contemporaneous suicidal signal at the time of expulsion.”Read the ruling here.Subscribe to our free newslettersOur weekly newsletter Closing Arguments offers the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world, while the monthly Under the Lights dishes the legal dirt from Hollywood, sports, Big Tech and the arts.Additional Reads