"We are seeking both compensatory and punitive damages because we believe the level of recklessness rises to the level of punitive," Ms. Cronin said.
But he said that he had seen cases of children who had shown "a level of recklessness or risk taking, not necessarily aimed at injuring oneself".
"I think it would be hard to show that their conduct reached a level of recklessness that caused Tyler Clementi to commit suicide," said Jay V. Surgent, a criminal defense lawyer in Lyndhurst, N.J.
Israel's Shas party drove its high-pressure bargaining to a new level of recklessness yesterday by giving 48 hours' notice of its departure from Prime Minister Ehud Barak's governing coalition.
Last year she said the Bush administration was taking tax cuts "to a new level of recklessness and irresponsibility," but on Friday she talked more about common ground and respecting the views of others.
Marking a new level of recklessness in a pre-election gambit to get more rightwing votes, Netanyahu suggested that he would annex parts of the West Bank, an outrageous move that would destroy the progress Israelis and Palestinians have made over the decades, risk violence and garner widespread international condemnation.
His chess style was swift, imaginative, daring — sometimes to the point of recklessness.
Play positively, but without any degree of recklessness.
This level of criminal recklessness is putting innocent people at risk.
215, 217, 4 L.Ed.205205 (1959); 4 second, that mens rea is not a unitary concept, but may vary as to each element of a crime; and third, that Anglo-American law has developed several identifiable and analytically distinct levels of intent, e.g., negligence, recklessness, knowledge, and purpose.
