Fazzolari v. Portland School District No. 1J

How courts have described this case

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• holding that high schools owe a “special duty” to their students to take “reasonable pre- cautions against foreseeable risks beyond those that might apply to other persons”
• holding that high schools owe a “special duty” to their students to take “reasonable pre- cautions against foreseeable risks beyond those that might apply to other persons”
• stating that a special relationship or standard of conduct can create and define duty actionable in negligence
• explaining that “common-law neg- ligence traditionally has excluded some categories of quite predictable injuries and claimants” from the scope of liabil- ity
• explaining that “common-law neg- ligence traditionally has excluded some categories of quite predictable injuries and claimants” from the scope of liabil- ity
• explaining that foreseeability should be a jury question except for conduct “at the outer margins”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).