Silva v. Spohn Health System Corp.

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• attack occurred as hospital employee, having just completed her shift, stood on curb adjoining public street awaiting her ride home
• “if criminal acts of third parties are reasonably foreseeable, the owner or occupier is required to undertake definite precautions on behalf of its invitees” (emphasis omitted)
• attack 16 occurred as hospital employee, having just completed her shift, stood on curb adjoining public street awaiting her ride home
• mere fact that appellant “had stepped across the imaginary line” separating appellee’s property and public sidewalk did not as a matter of law remove appellant “from the ambit of appellee’s duty”
• “if criminal acts of third parties are reasonably foreseeable, the owner or occupier is required to undertake definite precautions on behalf of its invitees” (emphasis omitted)
• mere fact that appellant “had stepped across the imaginary line” separating appellee’s property and public sidewalk did not as a matter of law remove appellant “from the ambit of appellee’s duty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).