Ironworkers District Council v. Andreotti

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing a landowner’s nondelegable duty to invitees and licensees under the PLA
• explaining that the legislative intent in creating the public building waiver \was to protect members of the public from unreasonable health and safety risks by encouraging public entities to construct and maintain their buildings for safe use by the persons who use them\
• discouraging reading additional restrictions into a statute where the legislature has chosen not to implement them
• “Where the rationales underlying related legal provisions are consistent, the application of the provisions should likewise be consistent.”
• “Where the legislature could have 13 chosen to restrict the application of a statute, but chose not to, we do not read additional restrictions into the statute.”
• “[A] landowner is liable for dangerous conditions of the property whenever the landowner is in a position to discover and correct these conditions— here, where those conditions are associated with construction or maintenance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).