Courts in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana and Oklahoma have issued similar decisions. There is a presumption that a mother will be allowed to move her children from Colorado to New York unless the move would be so harmful to the children that it would be better to switch custody to the father ruled the Colorado Supreme Court. Courts in California, New York and Tennessee have also made it easier for parents to move with their children. The landlord claimed that being forced to rent to an unmarried couple violated her freedom of religion under the First Amendment. The Alaska Supreme Court issued a similar ruling in 1994.
Landlords are liable for dangerous conditions on their property, including a vicious dog.
The landlord was found to have been negligent in the care and maintenance of his property as the pit bull was a hazardous condition. The boy lived in a rural farm house rented by his parents from a landlord who owned 80 acres of land, including two small ponds. The tenants rented only the house and its immediate yard. The landlord invited the children to play on his property. The boy, his brother and a friend went swimming in one of the ponds, which had been designed for that purpose.