Rock v. State

This case calls upon us to decide whether a private business corporation that, for a profit, owns and operates a vocational-training facility located in a residential neighborhood and whose clientele included at least one inmate who was serving a sentence for having committed violent juvenile offenses owed any duty to its neighbors to exercise reasonable care (1) in ascertaining the inmate’s juvenile-offense record and in investigating his background to determine whether to allow him to enter onto and to remain on its property to obtain vocational training; (2) in determining the appropriate…