Garrison v. Pacific Northwest Bell

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding state regulation limiting telephone company's liability where it has acted negligently
• upholding state regulation limiting telephone company’s liability where it has acted negligently
• “Gross negligence is characterized by conscious indifference to or reckless disregard of the rights of others” or an “I don’t care what happens attitude.”
• “Ordinarily, the issue of gross negligence is a question of fact to be decided by the jury. . . . The court will withdraw the issue from the jury only when it can say as a matter of law that the actor’s conduct falls short of gross negligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).