Regents of University of California v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (Rosen)

Regents of the University of California v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 4 Cal. 5th 607, 413 P.3d 656 (2018), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that universities owe a duty to protect students from foreseeable violence during curricular activities. In an opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan, the Court reinstated the 2010 case in which Katherine Rosen, a former UCLA student, sued the university for negligence when another student stabbed her in a chemistry lab. Following this ruling, Rosen can continue to pursue the case in court.

Prior history
Rosen's action alleged that the university breached its duty of care by failing to adopt reasonable measures that would have protected her from another student's violent on-campus attack. The Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven initially held that a public university had no general duty to protect its students from criminal acts of other students, thus the university's summary judgment motion was wrongly denied by the superior court.