Kuehn vs. Pub Zone

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* September 19, – Fall 2013 * Business Law 2301 * Kuehn v. Pub Zone * 364 N.J. Super. 3011,835 A.2d 692 Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division The Plaintiff Karl Kuehn v. the defendant Pub Zone. The basis of the case is that Kuehn sues Pub Zone because the defendant failed to protect its customers harm from others while he was a patron in the facility. In the result of the negligence the plaintiff was seriously assaulted in the restroom by several gang members that were on the premises with their gang colors being worn. It was stated on the door before you were to enter the facility that you were not allowed on the premises wearing gang colors. So with that warning customers that they are entering a place that is aware of the dangers in the area and that the place of business is doing a duty to make sure it patrons are in an environment that will be safe. The business had a duty of obligation to make sure they are doing their best to prevent violence from happening to their customers. Instead of following through with their duty they allowed the bikers in and didn’t follow with what they said and put their customers in harms way. This case is relevant to what I have studied. It gives me a reference of negligence showing how a business needs to protect people from harm from others while they are in the facility. It also shows that a business has a duty to care for how ones wrong doings owes the injured party. Then how the duty of obligation come into effect the pub had an obligations to make sure that harm was prevented if it was to possibly occur to any of their patrons .(Meiners pg. 127-128) The legal decision from the jury was that the defendant was required to pay the plaintiff 300,000 dollars in injuries and wrong doing. The judge decided that he was going to overrule

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