NGUYEN v. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SJC-12329.

479 Mass. 436 (2018)

DZUNG DUY NGUYEN, administrator, v. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 7, 2018.

Corrected May 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Beeler for the plaintiff.

Kevin P. Martin ( Yvonne W. Chan also present) for the defendants.

Alan D. Rose , B. Aidan Flanagan , & Antonio Moriello , for Amherst College & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Jonathan A. Karon , Thomas R. Murphy , Mark F. Itzkowitz , & Lisa DeBrosse Johnson , for Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., GAZIANO, LOWY, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


The plaintiff, Dzung Duy Nguyen, commenced a wrongful death action against the defendants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Professors Birger Wernerfelt and Drazen Prelec, and MIT assistant dean David W. Randall, arising out of the suicide of his son, Han Duy Nguyen (Nguyen). The defendants are alleged to have been negligent...

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