# Sweeney v. City of Bettendorf

> Supreme Court of Iowa · March 13, 2009 · 762 N.W.2d 873

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9695597

## Case

- **Full name:** Tara SWEENEY, Individually, and by Cynthia Sweeney, Her Mother and Next Friend, Appellants, v. CITY OF BETTENDORF and Bettendorf Parks and Recreation, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Iowa
- **Decided:** March 13, 2009
- **Citations:** 762 N.W.2d 873; 2009 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 26; 2009 WL 635137
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Streit
- **Judges:** Cady, Streit
- **Cited by:** 24 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9695597

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a permission slip stating that the defendant was “not responsible or liable for any accidents or injuries that may occur” to children participating in a field trip “[did] not constitute an enforceable anticipatory release of claims against the City for its neglige…
- noting a document did not contain clear and unequivocal language that would notify a casual reader of a waiver of claims
- noting “that causation has two components: cause in fact and legal cause”
- explaining “cause in fact”

## Opinion text

STREIT, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the majority’s opinion in regard to the release of liability signed by the parent of the child but join Justice Cady’s dissent as to the duty of care.

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