Delaney v. Clifton

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that the plaintiff had failed to state a negligence claim because “liability for [the plaintiffs] purely psychic injury must have a legal source that goes beyond the common-law duty to exercise reasonable care to prevent foreseeable harm”
• special relationship such as that of common carrier-passenger may create a heightened duty
• special relationship such as that of common carrier-passenger may create a heightened duty
• “a special relationship has been alleged in almost all successfully pleaded [IIED] claims”
• “To be sure, the court in Zavalas held that professionals are not entitled to the benefit of an across-the-board ‘no duty’ rule merely because they are not in privity with those whom their negligent conduct affects.”
• describing the holding of Zavalas

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).