TW v. Regal Trace, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that although the law generally will recognize a duty when a defendant’s conduct creates a foreseeable zone of risk, “a person or entity ‘generally has no duty to take precautions to protect another against criminal acts of third parties’ ”
• “[F]or the duty regarding third party criminal acts to arise, it must be proven that the landlord has knowledge of prior similar criminal conduct.”
• if no special relationship is shown, no duty to warn arises; general rule of no liability for third- party criminal acts applies unless another exception to the general rule may be invoked

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).