A quick legal question

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One kid taps another kid on the leg in the classroom. The other kid doesn't feel it, but he had some random tiny open wound that he didn't know about on that spot. Later, that other kid develops an infection as a result of this contact and loses his leg.

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[purplkat.livejournal.com]

I'm not a lawyer, but my guess is that there's no liability unless there's something special about the situation that makes it reasonable to anticipate the result (or some negative result). If no sane person could ever predict the freak sequence of events that follows the light tap with the flat of a ruler (or something), then I'd say there'd be no liability.