Cavanaugh's Sports Bar & Eatery, Ltd. v. Eric Porterfield

Crone, Judge.

Case Summary

[1] Shortly after closing time, several patrons of Cavanaugh's Sports Bar & Eatery, Ltd. ("Cavanaugh's"), became involved in an altercation in Cavanaugh's parking lot, and patron Eric Porterfield was injured. Porterfield filed a personal injury action, claiming that Cavanaugh's was negligent in failing to take reasonable care for his safety against criminal attacks in its parking lot. In this interlocutory appeal, Cavanaugh's challenges the denial of its motion for summary judgment. Finding that Cavanaugh's failed to establish as a matter of law that it did not owe…