EISEL v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 139, September Term, 1990.

324 Md. 376 (1991)

597 A.2d 447

STEPHEN EISEL v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward H. Gerstenfield, Bethesda, for appellant.

Joann Robertson, Sr. Asst. County Atty. (Joyce R. Stern, County Atty., J. Stephen McAuliffe, Asst. County Atty., all on brief), Rockville, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ., and ALAN M. WILNER, Chief Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, Specially Assigned.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

The legal theory advanced by the plaintiff in this wrongful death and survival action is that school counselors have a duty to intervene to attempt to prevent a student's threatened suicide. The specific question presented is whether the duty contended for may be breached by junior high school counselors who fail to inform a parent of suicidal statements attributed to the parent's child by fellow students where, when the counselors sought to discuss...

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