Case stirs question of school liability for student suicides
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Massachusetts' highest court is set to wade into a contentious legal battle over whether schools can be held responsible when students take their own lives.
The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the family of a graduate student who killed himself in 2009.
Han Nguyen's family says his death was preventable and that the school had a legal duty to act with reasonable care to protect him from harm.
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MIT and 18 other schools are urging the court to reject the family's case. MIT says it can't be blamed for Nguyen's death.
Schools say a decision in the family's favor would place an unreasonable burden on untrained employees to stop suicides.