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Vermont Duty to Aid the Endangered Act

Sam Kamin,
Dana Lindenberg

Vermont is one of a handful of states that, in some contexts, criminalize a failure to rescue even in the absence of a preexisting legal duty.

Do you think the Vermont statute is an improvement on the traditional and MPC approaches?

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