Michigan Supreme Court· 7/11/2007

Brown v. Brown

Citations

739 N.W.2d 313
478 Mich. 545

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noting, “the lack of foreseeability of the harm in this case weighs definitively against imposing a duty on defendant”
declining to accept vulgar workplace comments as sufficient to forewarn of a person’s propensity to commit violent acts
declining to accept vulgar workplace comments as sufficient to forewarn of a person’s propensity to commit violent acts
noting, “the lack of foreseeability of the harm in this case weighs definitively against imposing a duty on defendant”
rejecting the plaintiff’s theory that “defendant was negligent in failing to take reasonable steps to prevent the rape” because “an employer can assume that its employees will obey our criminal laws”
characterizing the issue in that case as “whether an employer is entitled to judgment as a matter of law when the sole basis for imposing liability for an employee’s rape of a third party is the employee’s lewd and offensive comments”

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Judges: Taylor, Corrigan, Markman, Young, Weaver, Kelly, Cavanagh

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