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AGUIRRE-ALVAREZ v. REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY

No. B116305.

79 Cal.Rptr.2d 580 (1998)

67 Cal.App.4th 1058

Apolonio AGUIRRE-ALVAREZ, as Personal Representative, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. The REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

November 16, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton, Norris & Galanter LLP and Donald G. Norris, Pasadena, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols, Mark B. Connely and N. Denise Taylor, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent.

BOREN, P.J.

Does a hospital treating a patient in constructive police custody who dies at the hospital from gunshot wounds inflicted by police owe a duty to the decedent's relatives to locate and notify them? We conclude that the hospital does not owe such a duty.

FACTS

Appellants Manuel Aguirre and Rosa Alvarez are the parents of the deceased, 19-year-old Alfonso Aguirre-Alvarez (decedent). Appellant Apolonio Aguirre-Alvarez (Aguirre-Alvarez...

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