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Ashwood v. Clark County

Citations

  • 930 P.2d 740
  • 113 Nev. 80
  • 1997 Nev. LEXIS 4

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the Clark County Building Code did not establish a duty giving rise to negligence per se
  • stating that “[a] violation of statute establishes the duty and breach elements” of a negligence action
  • stating that “[a] violation of statute establishes the duty and breach elements” of a negligence action
  • concluding as a matter of law that the plaintiff was not a member of the class of persons that the building code was intended to protect
  • concluding as a matter of law that the plaintiff was not a member of the class of persons that the building code was intended to protect
  • finding that the “common law duty of reasonable care did 9 not give rise to a specific duty” to keep every gate unlocked in a park

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Springer, Steffen, Young, Shearing

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