Zanary v. Diamond

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a commercial landlord has a duty to take reasonable precautionary measures to minimize the risk of foreseeable criminal activity and to make the premises safe for the visiting public
• holding that a commercial landlord has a duty to take reasonable precautionary measures to minimize the risk of foreseeable criminal activity and to make the premises safe for the visiting public
• concluding that rational jury could find from history of criminal activity in other parts of building that criminal incident in the lobby was “significant, foreseeable possibility”
• holding owner of office building had duty to provide reasonable security for visiting public given history of criminal ac tivity in parts of the building
• holding in absence of prior notice of criminal activity, landlord had no duty
• finding owner of building under duty to place security guard in lobby to deter criminal conduct by unknown third parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).