Legal Opinion
United States v. Teresita Sorrels v. NCL (Bahamas), LTD
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 4, 2015No. 13-15858, 14-14467PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
In slip and fall cases involving an allegedly dangerous or defective surface, the question of liability sometimes turns on (or is at least informed by) the surface’s coefficient of friction (COF), which is, in layman’s terms, “the degree of slip resistance.” Mihailovich v. Laatsch, 359 F.3d 892, 896, 921 n. 2 (7th Cir.2004). See also Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 1035 (5th ed.2002) (defining COF as “the ratio between the force necessary to move one surface horizontally over another and the normal force each surface exerts on the other”). “The higher the [COF], the…
2Cases cited39 opinions
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