· 12/4/1992
Popp v. Cash Station, Inc.
Citations
- 613 N.E.2d 1150
- 244 Ill. App. 3d 87
- 184 Ill. Dec. 558
- 1992 Ill. App. LEXIS 1960
How courts have described this case
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- refusing to impose duty on automatic banking machine operator to inform customers that no security systems are provided
- noting the purpose of the Act to “enjoin[] trade practices which confuse or deceive the consumer” and a consumer “must allege facts which would indicate that [they] are likely to be damaged in the future”
- no duty to prevent foreseeable attacks by third parties where defendant has no unique knowledge regarding possible future attacks
- “Generalized allegations of crime will not suffice to establish that future criminal attacks are foreseeable.”
- “The purpose of the DTPA is the enjoining of trade practices which confuse or deceive the consumer.”
- allegation that 1,500 to 5,000 criminal attacks occurred on ATM customers nationwide annually insufficient to make criminal attack upon the plaintiff foreseeable
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Judges: Gordon
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