Abrisch v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• the court found a breach of duty where a controller failed to provide a pilot with accurate and current weather information necessary to safely maneuver the plane
• an act of negligence proximately causes an injury if “it can reasonably be said that, except for the negligence, the loss, injury or damage would not have occurred.”
• “[O]nce [air traffic controllers] undertake to provide a service, even one not required by the [ATCM], under general negligence principles, air traffic controllers have a duty to provide such services with due care.”
• controllers have a duty to provide pilots with timely, accurate weather

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).