Walk It Through: The Initiation
Garret's law, graded by the injury, and who the Good Samaritan section names.
New members of a college organization are told they will be pushed through a night of drinking and blows.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One college organization's initiation. Other crimes committed along the way, school discipline, and whether some other law protects a bystander who gives care 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.
- Good Samaritan protectionProtection from civil damages for a physician, physician's assistant, registered professional nurse, licensed practical nurse or licensed EMS provider who in good faith renders emergency care without compensation at the scene of an emergency, short of gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct.
- HazingAn intentional, knowing or reckless act, by a person who attends, is employed by or volunteers at an educational institution, that the person knew or should have known endangers someone's physical health or safety, for joining or staying in an organization.