The organizers of an annual country music festival hired numerous temporary employees as camping staff to help

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The organizers of an annual country music festival hired numerous temporary employees as “camping staff” to help with the festival by admitting people into the campground, exchanging tickets for wristbands, assisting campers, answering questions, and giving directions. The festival was accompanied by camping on the grounds and heavy drinking by festival attendees. A young woman attending the concert was sexually assaulted by one of the temporary staff. The staff member had been convicted of first-degree sexual assault twelve years earlier in another state. He had been hospitalized for drug addiction and fired from several jobs in recent years. At the time of his hiring, he was unemployed and homeless. He had used the address of the VA Medical Center on his application form. He did not provide any references and listed his employment status as “self-employed.” The organization sometimes did brief telephone interviews before hiring (it was unclear whether that had happened in this case) but did not do background checks of any kind, had no established hiring criteria, and basically would hire anyone if they “sound like good people” on the phone. The organization cited the facts that it had to hire over a thousand temporary staff for these festivals in a short time for very brief employment and minimal pay. The victim of the assault sued for negligent hiring. What should the court decide? Why?

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