Foley v. Boston Housing Authority

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 jury could not find that it was foreseeable to the employer that an employee might attack the plaintiff (a fellow employee
• noting courts generally reluctant to take issue of foreseeability away from jury
• no causation where “harm which occurred was not within the scope of foreseeable risk to the victim”
• held, as matter of law, that the harm that occurred was not within the scope of the foreseeable risk to the victim
• \no duty owed when the risk [causing] injury is not one which could be reasonably anticipated\ [citation omitted]
• plaintiff required to prove that the attack on the plaintiff by a third person was foreseeable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).