White v. Southern California Edison Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that the utility owed no contractual or common law duty to moped driver injured in a collision that occurred at an intersection where streetlights were not functioning
• interpreting Langley to mean that a utility has “a general duty to exercise reasonable care in the management of its personal and real property”
• noting \the large number of streetlights\ and \the likelihood that streetlights will become periodically inoperable\ in holding that the 24 SC-2024-0700 defendant did not owe the plaintiff a legal duty to maintain streetlights that the defendant had contracted to maintain
• “Duty is an allocation of risk determined by balancing the foreseeability of harm, in light of all of the circumstances, against the burden to be imposed.”
• duty “determined by balancing the foreseeability of harm, in light of all the circumstances, against the burden to be imposed”
• duty is “determined by balancing the foreseeability of harm, in light of all the circumstances, against the burden to be imposed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).