Roller v. Basic Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• defining a “cause of action” as “a set of operative facts which, under the substantive law, may give rise to one or more rights of action”
• defining a “cause of action” as “a set of operative facts which, under the substantive law, may give rise to one or more rights of action”
• “[A] cause of action is a set of operative facts which, under the substantive law, may give rise to a right of action.”
• “In exchange, employers under the canopy of the Act are sheltered from common-law liability in tort.” (cleaned up)
• “In exchange, employers under the canopy of the Act are sheltered from common-law liability in tort.” (cleaned up)
• limitation in a statute that “created a new right . . . unknown at common law” was “part of the new right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).