Betty I. Gardner 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 fact that the contract requires specified safety precautions does not negate the employer's liability where the contractor fails to follow those specifications\
• electrician electrocuted while working on a junction box containing energized electrical circuits
• electrician electrocuted while working on a junction box containing energized electrical circuits
• “[U]nder California’s nondelegable duty doctrine the United States is directly liable for its own negligence when it fails to ensure that an independent contractor takes adequate safety precautions and the work to be performed involves special dangers.”
• finding nondelegable duty under California law
• finding nondelegable duty under California law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).