Proximate Negligance You Decide: The Law Who Case Study

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Proximate Negligance

You Decide: The Law

Who is to blame?

Factual Summary

Suzy Marks and her friends Jerry and Kate were ordered to leave Elsewhere City Park at the 11pm curfew time by Officer Ruthless. Suzy told the Officer she wanted to wait for her friend Orson, who was supposed to pick her up at 11pm or said she would walk the short distance home. Officer Ruthless ordered her into Jerry's vehicle and said she should leave immediately. Jerry made several stops on the way home and got into an accident, causing Suzy to be injured

Was Officer Ruthless' action the proximate cause of Suzy's injuries?

Restate or summarize the question. What is the legal question you are going to answer?

Was Officer Ruthless negligent?

Legal concept(s)

According to McCollum v. CBS, "the threshold and, in this case, dispositive question with respect to the assertion of a claim for negligence is whether any duty was owed to the plaintiffs" (8). Officer Ruthless, as a public servant, had a duty to ensure that the park's curfew was upheld but also to protect the safety of the young people.

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Officer Ruthless should also have anticipated possible injury given Suzy's reticence and the fact that she was sitting in a truck without a seatbelt (although seatbelts are not required in the back of camper trucks by law).

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