Piazza v. Kellim’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 2 state decisions

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1. “"Foreseeability plays a role in at least two overlapping common-law negligence determinations: (1) whether the defendant's conduct unreasonably created a foreseeable risk of harm to a protected interest of the plaintiff such that the defendant may be held liable for that conduct-formerly described in terms of 'duty' and 'breach' as measures of negligent conduct; and (2) whether, because the * risk of harm was reasonably foreseeable, the defendant may be held liable to the plaintiff for the particular harm that befell the plaintiff-a concept that traditionally was referred to as 'proximate' cause and which, in our current analytical framework, operates as a legal limit on the scope of a defendant's liability for negligent conduct."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Sloan v. Providence Health System-Oregon

2. “[t]he concept of foreseeability embodies a prospective judgment about a course of events; it therefore ordinarily depends on the facts of a concrete situation and, if disputed, is a jury question.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. WM.. v. Am. Airlines, Inc.

3. “including the risk of harm from third-party criminal acts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. WM.. v. Am. Airlines, Inc.