People v. Doyle

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that, “The finding of a legal duty is a prerequisite to a finding of negligence”
• “a company’s negligent discharge of toxic chemicals into a river would not result in an absence of duty to injured swimmers downstream merely because the harm to plaintiffs did not occur contemporaneously and geographically adjacent to defendant’s actions.”
• discussing ordinary negligence in the context of Virginia law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).