Dirosa v. Department of Public Safety & Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• describing police encounter with suspect who fled into nearby woods where pursuing officer fell off ledge suffering severe injuries
• describing police encounter with suspect who fled into nearby woods where pursuing officer fell off ledge suffering severe injuries
• refusing to extend doctrine beyond its historical use in premises liability cases
• “[Cjommon sense suggests that one who takes off running into the dark to flee from a police officer, who had ordered him to stop, ought to know that the pursuing officer could be injured scrambling through obstacles and over unlit terrain.”
• declining to extend firefighter rule beyond scope of premises liability
• firefighter’s rule is confined to claims of premises liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).