Ellis v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding as a matter of law that “[a]lthough both parties agree that the neighborhood in question is in a high crime area, there was no way [the defendant grocery store] could know in advance of the particular attack in question.”
• specific attack was unforeseeable “[a]lthough both parties agree that the neighborhood in question is in a high crime area”
• attack was unforeseeable although it followed an argument between the plaintiff and the attacker, which was heard by a store security guard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).