Ram Krishna Maheshwari, Appellants v. City of New York, Respondents, Defendants

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the Appellate Division’s summary‑judgment rulings granting judgment for the concert producer and the City of New York. The court held that the defendants owed no duty to protect the plaintiff from a random, unforeseeable criminal assault in the parking lot, that the assault was an extraordinary intervening act breaking the causal chain, and that the City’s immunity claim was unnecessary. The decision rests on established landowner‑duty principles and the lack of foreseeability of such violence.