802 F. Supp. 487 - Farris v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · 107 Wash. 2d 72 - Tyson v. Tyson · Ehrenhaft v. Malcolm Price, Inc. · Hanna v. Fletcher
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he sexual abuse of which these plaintiffs accuse the defendant continued far beyond their childhood years when it might be reasonable to assume that they were unaware of its wrongful character or how to stop it. It was, moreover, being perpetrated by a sibling not much older than they, not a person in loco parentis. Finally, the resultant injury for which damages are sought is psychic alone. Expert testimony might prove the existence of the plaintiffs’ subjective beliefs as to the cause of their distress, but it can give no assurance that those beliefs are grounded in reality. Evidence to that effect, if it exists at all today, is of doubtful reliability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Farris v. Compton
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