Clark v. Aris, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that where Baer’s employment did not put him in contact with the victims and nothing in his criminal history suggested that he was capable of murder, neither the victims nor the tragic harm that befell them was reasonably foreseeable
• concluding that where Baer’s employment did not put him in contact with the victims and nothing in his criminal history suggested that he was capable of murder, neither the victims nor the tragic harm that'befell them was reasonably foreseeable
• “A plaintiff could theoretically plead theories of liability in the alternative... .”
• Under a theory of negligent retention and supervision, liability may be imposed on an employer when an employee “steps beyond the recognized scope of his employment to commit a tortious injury upon a third party.”
• “To make a successful negligence claim, a plaintiff must establish three elements: (1) a duty of care owed by the defendant to the plaintiff; (2) a breach of that duty; and (3) an injury proximately caused by the breach of that duty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).