Walk It Through: The Initiation
An initiation likely to cause serious injury, care given at the scene, and a lawsuit by the person hazed.
Pledges are told the initiation into a student organization involves a paddling line.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One pledge initiation. Other crimes committed during it, school discipline, and how serious bodily injury is defined in the battery section are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Emergency careMedical or nonmedical care or assistance rendered in good faith, and not for compensation, at the scene of an emergency. The person who gives it is not liable for civil damages from any act or omission other than gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.
- HazingAny method of initiation or preinitiation into a student organization or student body, recognized by the school or not, that is likely to cause serious bodily injury to a former, current or prospective student.