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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could the parents be held liable for bringing their unmedicated son into Costco?[/quote]
He was an adult, so unless he was declared incompetent and his parents given legal custody of him, no, they can’t be held legally responsible.  And even if they could, for what?  The cop’s ER bill to check his bruise?[/quote]

This has been a terrible nightmare for those parents, no question.  But they used their membership to get their son into Costco and they more than likely did have some sort of guardianship over him if he was mentally incapacitated.  I am NOT saying that they should be held liable for bringing him into the store, my question is COULD they be held responsible for bringing him into that store?[/quote]

And my answer was to the legal question of whether they could, not the philosophical question of whether they should.  Unless they had legal guardianship, they generally can’t be held responsible for his autonomous behavior.[/quote]

If they did have legal guardianship then they could be held responsible?[/quote]
Even then, likely not.  Most of the time parental liability arises from instances where kids engage in intentional/deliberately malicious actions, not from careless, reckless, negligent, etc., behavior.  If their son is sufficiently lacking in cognitive capacity that they could get guardianship, it’s hard to argue he has the cognitive capacity for that kind of malicious/willful behavior.  The other theory that possibly could be pursued (if California allows it) is if he had a recent history of similar violent behavior that his parents weren’t making an effort to address and they keep taking him out without adequate supervision, but that’s a really hard one to prove.  And ultimately, the guy suffered at most minor injuries, so there’s not a whole lot for him to recover to make a lawsuit worthwhile.

He is going to face a civil suit from the French family, though.  That’s all but certain.[/quote]

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