C.V. v. Agency for Persons with Disabilities

How courts have described this case

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

• “Legal classifications such as trespasser and licensee are judicial creations which should be cast aside when they are no longer useful as controlling tools for the jury.”
• “It is contrary to reason to accept as a settled principle of law that a parking lot owner actually varies his conduct according to the status of those who walk across his boundaries.”
• “In certain cases there may well be, as Judge Leventhal would hold, ‘rough common sense’ to the notion that a host should take no greater care of his social guests than of his own family.” (majority opinion
• “A landowner must act as a reasonable man in maintaining his property in a reasonably safe condition in view of all the circumstances, including the likelihood of injury to others, the seriousness of the injury, and the burden of avoiding the risk.”
• finding the common-law classification system produces confusion
• applying District of Columbia law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).