Fresh off my torts final, the facts and allegations facing Alec Baldwin, the studio of "Rust," and the multiple other defendants named are all too similar a textbook survey of torts fact pattern.
Here, to the best of my knowledge coming from someone who is almost 1/6th of a lawyer, I'll go through the general negligence elements and the specials that apply to the emotional harm alleged by the plaintiffs in addition to considering whether they fall into a particular class of cases whose classification is detrimental to whether or not they can even seek recovery.
Fresh off my torts final, the facts and allegations facing Alec Baldwin, the studio of "Rust," and the multiple other defendants named are all too similar a textbook survey of torts fact pattern.
Here, to the best of my knowledge coming from someone who is almost 1/6th of a lawyer, I'll go through the general negligence elements and the specials that apply to the emotional harm alleged by the plaintiffs in addition to considering whether they fall into a particular class of cases whose classification is detrimental to whether or not they can even seek recovery.