Clohesy v. Food Circus Supermarkets, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a supermarket could be liable for the death of a customer after an attack in the parking lot
• noting that the determination of the existence of a duty to exercise reasonable care is one of fairness and policy
• noting that foreseeability of harm is the \foundational\ element in the duty analysis and is \susceptible to objective analysis\
• holding landowner liable for supermarket customer’s murder after her abduction from parking lot because criminal acts were foreseeable even though prior crimes on property were “lesser in degree”
• holding a supermarket had the legal duty to protect its customers from reasonably foreseeable injuries in its parking lot
• holding business owner premises liability may arise from prior criminal acts on the property and those which \occurred in close proximity to the defendant's premises\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).