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HELFMAN v. NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

SJC-12787.

485 Mass. 308 (2020)

MORGAN HELFMAN v. NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 27, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark F. Itzkowitz ( Kenneth I. Kolpan also present) for the plaintiff.

Daryl J. Lapp ( Katherine A. Guarino Baker also present) for the defendants.

Lisa A. Parlagreco & Jeffrey S. Beeler , for Heinlein Beeler Mingace & Heineman, P.C., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Rebecca J. Roe , of Washington, & Erin K. Olson , for National Center for Victims of Crime & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

This case arises out of an allegedly nonconsensual sexual encounter between two first-year students at Northeastern University(Northeastern)2 in October 2013. The plaintiff claims that Northeastern3 is liable for failing to prevent the sexual assault, as well as for its allegedly...

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