Brant v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District

How courts have described this case

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• holding public transportation district is a common carrier that “owes its passengers the highest degree of care and skill practicable for it to exercise”
• “Tri- Met is a common carrier and therefore owes its passengers the highest degree of care and skill practicable for it to exercise.” (quotation omitted)
• on a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a negligence case based on the standard of care, “the question is whether [the] plaintiff produced sufficient evidence to allow a jury to find that the [defendant] was negligent”
• to survive a motion for summary judgment, the party with the burden of proving a claim must present evidence that gives the factfinder a basis \other than sheer speculation\ to conclude that the elements of the claim have been met
• to survive a motion for summary judgment, the party with the burden of proving a claim must present evidence that gives the factfinder a basis “other than sheer speculation” to con- clude that the elements of the claim have been met
• to survive a motion for summary judgment, the party with the burden of proving a claim must present evidence that gives the factfinder a basis “other than sheer speculation” to con- clude that the elements of the claim have been met

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).