Delta Tau Delta, Beta Alpha Chapter v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a national fraternity that does not undertake to provide security services does not assume a duty of care
• holding insufficient evidence existed to establish dram shop liability where evidence existed that a guest at a fraternity party had drank alcoholic beverages at the party, but “there is no evidence that [the guest] exhibited visible signs of intoxication for [the server] to notice”
• finding insufficient evidence of visible intoxication where the record demonstrated that the allegedly intoxicated individual “may have been more talkative than usual, but he was not rowdy or stumbling or having verbal difficulties”
• where there is insufficient evidence to support actual knowledge, issue may be resolved as matter of law
• “[WJhile landowners are not to be made the insurers of their invitees’ safety, landowners do have a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect their invitees from foreseeable criminal attacks.”
• “[W]hile landowners are not to be made the insurers of their invitees’ safety, landowners do have a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect their invitees from foreseeable criminal attacks.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).