Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language (Revised)

Resource 4 . 2 . 2 . 3 . 3

5 minutes

Zepeda v. City of Los Angeles ("The Unhelpful Paramedics Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

Who decides whether the defendant owed a duty to the plaintiff? What is the general rule for making that determination?

Court of Appeal of the State of California

223 Cal. App. 3d 232

No. B045924

1990-08-03

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