Saylab v. Don Juan Restaurant, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that breach of a statutory standard creates liability to innocent third parties who come within the protection of the statute only where breached by the “person upon whom the statute imposes specific duties”
• “An insurance agent must exercise reasonable care and skill in performing his duties and that agent may become liable in tort to the principal who suffers a loss by [the agent’s failure] to use standard care.”
• same, applying District of Columbia law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).