El Pueblo De Puerto Rico v. Irizarry Zapata, Luis Jose

How courts have described this case

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• discussing that foreseeability of risk is a chief element in determining whether a defendant owes a duty or obligation to a plaintiff and, absent foreseeability, there is no duty owed by a defendant to a plaintiff
• discussing Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co., 162 N.E. 99 (1928), and noting that neither Justice Cardozo’s majority opinion nor Justice Andrews’ dissent “suggested that foreseeability should be considered on a redundant basis as part of both duty and proximate cause”
• discussing “tortuous history” of the “law of foreseeability” of harm under Montana law and, inter alia, clarifying the role of foreseeability of harm in the causation context as a component consideration of proximate cause as applicable in a particular case
• \`Duty . . . is measured by the scope of the risk which negligent conduct foreseeably entails.\'
• \Duty ... is measured by the scope of the risk which negligent conduct foreseeably entails\
• “ ‘Duty ... is measured by the scope of the risk which negligent conduct foresee-ably entails.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).