Phillips v. Green

How courts have described this case

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

• “Under well-established principles of Second Circuit maritime negligence law, an owner breaches his or her legal duty of reasonable care by failing to take simple precautions to prevent foreseeable and serious injury.”
• “To establish negligence, a claimant must demonstrate that the owner’s negligence constituted a substantial factor in producing the injury, or . . . was the ‘cause-in-fact’ or ‘but-for’ cause of the injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).