I was looking for many torts classes in preparation for the class that I am teaching.  I wanted to show the students that even though we use the same words that we do not always have the same results when it comes to torts cases.

My uncle reminded me of a Shanghainese case where there was a PhD student who poisoned another PhD student at Fu Dan University.  So I am going to use it as an example of a battery case.

In the U.S., there seems to be lots of “Affluzena” defenses and the latest one has hit California.  I am going to search and find the actual court opinion once it is officially published but in the mean time the news articles will do.

Basically in one incident the international Chinese students fought over splitting the check in the restaurant so they kidnapped, beat, stripped a girl naked, and burnt her skin with cigarettes to “teach her a lesson.”  In the second incident, the same Chinese students beat and burnt another Chinese student over some other issue.  Thankfully the Judge sentenced the defendants to jail from 6-13 years.

By the time you are 19 years old, you need to know that beating someone and torturing them because you have a grievance is a “no no.”  Not sure what the perpetrator was thinking with the following statement in court: “Parents in China are well-meaning and send their kids thousands of miles away with no supervision and too much freedom. That is a formula for disaster,” said Yuhan “Coco” Yang in a statement read by her lawyer.

China teenagers jailed in US over kidnapping and assault – http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35601189

Current Mood: Aghast by the spread of the Affluenza defense spreading in the U.S. court systems.  On the other hand happy that the cases are relevant to my classes.