Pittsburgh Logistics Systems, Inc. v. B. Keppel Trucking, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that owners or occupiers of land open for business have a duty “to take reasonable measures to protect customers from injuries caused by the criminal acts of unknown third persons when such acts are generally foreseeable”
• noting that ten armed robberies had taken place there in the past three years
• noting that ten armed robberies had taken place there in the past three years
• stating that “the question of whether a duty should be imposed in a particular case is essentially one of fairness under contemporary standards-whether reasonable persons would recognize a duty and agree that it exists”
• 10 armed robberies in three years preceding incident established that harm to customers was reasonably foreseeable
• prior incidents in neighborhood, although not at defendant’s premises, considered in determining foreseeability of criminal assault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).