Case stirs question of school liability for student suicides

BOSTON — Massachusetts’ highest court is set to wade into a contentious legal battle over whether schools can be held responsible when students take their own lives. The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the family of a graduate student who killed himself in 2009. Han Nguyen’s family says his death was preventable and that the school had a legal duty to act with reasonable care to protect [