Moore v. Willis

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• holding emotional distress damages are available when attorney negligence results in the client being \forcibly deprived of his liberty and dispatched to a mental hospital\
• “Including the words ‘knew or should have known’ in a complaint does not automatically satisfy the requirement of alleging foreseeability.”
• affirming grant of motion for judg- ment on the pleadings, where the plaintiff alleged that the defendant “should have known” of a risk, which was merely a legal conclusion that the defendant was negligent, without alleging ultimate facts that would justify drawing that legal conclusion
• complaint must allege facts from which factfinder could determine that defendants had reason to know that violence could result from underage drinking
• “At issue is whether the plaintiff alleged ultimate facts that would allow a factfinder to determine that the violence was foreseeable.”
• “if ORS 30.950 creates statutory liability, the remedy is not available to plaintiffs” who are shot or stabbed

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