{"id":383,"date":"2013-08-12T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=383"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:45:07","slug":"4-supreme-court-may-affirm-trial-court-rulings-on-other-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/grounds-for-affirmance\/4-supreme-court-may-affirm-trial-court-rulings-on-other-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"(4) Supreme Court May Affirm Trial Court Rulings on Other Grounds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the Rhode Island Supreme Court\u2019s ability to affirm a trial court\u2019s grant of summary judgment on grounds other than those relied upon by the trial court, the Court may also affirm a trial court\u2019s rulings on other grounds.\u00a0 <em>See<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/11-14,15,17,18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meyer v. Meyer, No. 2011-14-Appeal <\/a>at 16 n.8 (citing <em>In re Last Will and Testament of Quigley<\/em>, 21 A.3d 393, 401 n.6 (R.I. 2011); <em>Shepard v. Harleysville Worcester Ins. Co.<\/em>, 944 A.2d 167, 170 (R.I. 2008); <em>Ahlburn v. Clark<\/em>, 728 A.2d 449, 452 (R.I. 1999)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the Rhode Island Supreme Court\u2019s ability to affirm a trial court\u2019s grant of summary judgment on grounds other than those relied upon by the trial court, the Court may also affirm a trial court\u2019s rulings on other grounds.\u00a0 See&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[18,61,14,63],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grounds-for-affirmance","tag-appellate-practice","tag-appellee","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court","tag-trial-court-rulings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}