Torts/Personal Injury,
Construction,
Civil Litigation
Oct. 6, 2020
Privette doctrine rulings could be an appellate split in the making
In Johnson v. The Raytheon Company, Inc., a false alarm investigated by maintenance engineering staff led to a Privette doctrine claim against a property owner when a ladder on which the maintenance staff was standing slipped on wet flooring.
Garret D. Murai
Partner
Nomos LLP
Garret is the editor of the California Construction Law Blog at www.calconstructionlawblog.com.
It's one of the most quoted phrases in legal history: "Shouting fire in a [crowded] theater."
It comes from the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1919 decision in Schenck v. U.S., 249 US 47 (1919), and has come to stand for the proposition that not all speech, in particular dangerous speech, is protected by the First Amendment.
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