Lipham v. Federated Department Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• steering plaintiff to a place where pallets were left on the platform is not lack of negligence per se
• steering plaintiff to a place where pallets were left on the platform is not lack of negligence per se
• distinguishing claims arising from the condition of the premises from claims arising from active negligence
• stating that because the case presented a question of active negligence, “whether [the plaintiff], who was on the property lawfully, is a licensee or an invitee is irrelevant and does nothing to diminish [the defendant]’s general duty of care towards [the plaintiff].”
• reversing grant of summary judgment to department store when there were genuine issues of material fact as to whether store employee was actively negligent when he bumped into and knocked plaintiff to the ground
• evidence that plaintiff was injured when employee unintentionally knocked her to the ground on store premises created claim of active negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).