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TortsDuty (9/22)

Default: everyone owes a duty of reasonable care to foreseeable plaintiffs.

Cardozo in Palsgraf: duty runs only to those inside the zone of foreseeable danger. Andrews in dissent: a duty is owed to everyone, and the limiting work belongs to proximate cause instead.

Prof: we follow Cardozo unless told otherwise, but be ready to argue both.

No general duty to rescue a stranger. Exceptions: you created the peril, you began a rescue and left them worse off, or a special relationship exists (common carrier, innkeeper, employer, custodian).

Land possessors: at common law the duty owed turned on the entrant's status, invitee, licensee, or trespasser. Many states have collapsed

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Duty (9/22)

Default: everyone owes a duty of reasonable care to foreseeable plaintiffs.

Cardozo in Palsgraf: duty runs only to those inside the zone of foreseeable danger. Andrews in dissent: a duty is owed to everyone, and the limiting work belongs to proximate cause instead.

Prof: we follow Cardozo unless told otherwise, but be ready to argue both.

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Question 1, written from your notes

Tests your line: duty runs only to those inside the zone of foreseeable danger

A conductor dislodges a package. It explodes, and the blast knocks over a scale at the far end of the platform, injuring a passenger standing there. Under the approach the notes say to follow, what is the strongest reason she loses?

AShe was outside the zone of foreseeable danger, so no duty ran to her.
BThe explosion was an intervening cause that broke the chain of causation.
CThe conductor's conduct was reasonable, so there was no breach.
DShe suffered no physical impact from the package itself.

Timed drill, Torts1:24

AShe was outside the zone of foreseeable danger, so no duty ran to her.
BThe explosion was an intervening cause that broke the chain of causation.
CThe conductor's conduct was reasonable, so there was no breach.
DShe suffered no physical impact from the package itself.

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Why not B

This is the Andrews route, resolving the case at proximate cause. The notes say to reach for Cardozo first, where the case ends earlier, at duty.

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Answer: She was outside the zone of foreseeable danger, so no duty ran to her.

Cardozo makes duty relational: it is owed to foreseeable plaintiffs, and a passenger that far off is not one.

From your notes: “duty runs only to those inside the zone of foreseeable danger”

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