Customer Status Auto Duty
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Torts1
Example wrong choices
19213_road_to_emmaus_breezeway · TORTS · Choice ALydia owed a duty because Esther had just finished a paid puzzle session.
Why it's attractive
It notices that Esther was a paying participant, so it feels like the premises relationship is solved. The breaker is that the call asks for a guard-duty trigger, and paid status alone does not make a random attack foreseeable.
Why it's wrong
Uses a real status fact but does not answer the security-guard duty trigger.
Spot it next time
Ask: what fact made guards necessary before the attack?
19213_road_to_emmaus_breezeway · TORTS · Choice BLydia owed a duty because every business must prevent all crimes on its premises.
Why it's attractive
It converts the broad idea of business safety into a simple protective rule. The breaker is the absolute wording: every business and all crimes turns premises liability into insurance.
Why it's wrong
Every business/all crimes is an absolute insurance duty.
Spot it next time
Circle every/all and test whether the law is really absolute.
19213_road_to_emmaus_breezeway · TORTS · Choice DLydia owed a duty because exit breezeways are inherently dangerous as a matter of law.
Why it's attractive
It sounds lawyerly because it declares a category dangerous as a matter of law. The breaker is that no stem fact supports automatic danger for every exit breezeway.
Why it's wrong
Invents an inherent-danger category for exit breezeways.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the answer names a real trigger or merely labels a location dangerous.
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