Rains v. Bend of the River

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• concluding that Tennessee law would support a negligent entrustment claim against a seller of ammunition
• finding that suicide is not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of selling bullets to a “well-adjusted” eighteen-year-old in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(b) and ordering summary judgment for retailer
• finding that suicide is not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of selling bullets to a “well-adjusted” eighteen-year-old in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(b) and ordering summary judgment for retailer
• “[D]eterminations regarding whether particular conduct conforms to the common-law standard of conduct are made on a case-by-case basis.”
• “The negligence per se doctrine[’s] . . . governing principles and their application vary considerably from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.” (footnotes omitted)
• defendant who sold ammunition to decedent was not liable for decedent’s suicide absent evidence that it knew or should have known that decedent intended to use ammunition to commit suicide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).