You Can Sue a Parent Who Doesn't Vaccinate, But You Probably Won't Win

In the midst of the Disneyland measles outbreak, with more than 100 people infected, many U.S. parents may be wondering: Can I sue people who chose not to vaccinate their kid?

To win a civil lawsuit, you would need to prove that a parent’s actions — or in this case, inactions — were responsible for specific harm. Say, for example, that your baby, too young to get a measles vaccine, got sick after catching the virus from an older child at a daycare center.In that case, sure, you could sue the unvaccinated child’s parents (this is America, after all). But you almost certainly wouldn’t win, according to several legal experts.“Under the current law it’s really unlikely,” John Conley, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, told BuzzFeed News. “But there are a couple of legal theories that you might use.”Read more at...BuzzFeed News, February 2015.