Church v. Callanan Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an alleged omission or inaction is insufficient to find that a defendant launched an instrument of harm “where inaction is at most a refusal to become an instrument for good”
• contractor not liable where its failure to install guardrail on highway did not increase the risk that existed before contract was entered into

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).