Relyea v. State

How courts have described this case

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• finding no foreseeability issue where no serious crime had been committed on campus since 1963
• parents of two students sue landowner of university where students were attacked in the parking lot of the university
• state university's decisions concerning whether to provide security guards and parking attendants were clearly discretionary planning decisions and thus the state and its agencies enjoyed sovereign immunity
• no liability was found when the wrongdoers were complete strangers to the landowner and to the victims, and where the incident occurred precipitously
• “[T]here being no duty to protect from the type of conduct which occurred here, the trial court correctly entered judgment for the insurance company.”
• decision whether to provide guards and attendants are partially based upon budgetary considerations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).