Yakubowicz v. Paramount Pictures Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Paramount was not liable, on a failure to warn theory, for a fatal assault committed by a teen who had watched, and was allegedly inspired by, Paramount’s violent film
• commenting on the reasonableness of a theatre’s procedures for keeping alcohol out of its theatres
• “A basic principle of negligence law is that ordinarily everyone has a duty to refrain from affirmative acts that unreasonably expose others to a risk of harm.”
• grant of summary judgment for defendant movie theater operator proper where intoxicated patron fatally stabbed victim after drinking liquor smuggled into showing of The Warriors
• “There can be negligence only where there is a duty to be careful”
• “There can be negligence only where there is a duty to be careful”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).