Sacramento County Can’t Be Sued Over Death, Court Says
Earlier this month, California's 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a superior court's 2011 ruling that Sacramento County can be sued over a 2008 fatal assault of an Oak Park group home employee by a patient with schizophrenia. The employee's husband filed a $14.5 million wrongful-death lawsuit, stating that the county conservator did not notify the group home about the potential danger of the patient.
- "Sacramento County Can't Be Sued in Group Home Death, Court Rules" (Walsh, Sacramento Bee, 9/27).