Monk v. Temple George Associates, LLC

The core question presented in this appeal is whether the owners and managers of a parking lot who invite members of the public to park their vehicles in the lot for a fee during evening hours have a legal duty of care to provide reasonable protections to their invitees against the harm of being physically assaulted by third parties in the parking lot. Rather than address this question, the majority recasts the issue to ask whether, on public policy grounds, the defendants, Temple George Associates, LLC (Temple), and Pro Park, Inc. (Pro Park),1 should have a responsibility to afford…