{"id":682,"date":"2014-08-04T23:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=682"},"modified":"2023-07-25T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:56:48","slug":"5-know-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/trial\/5-know-4\/","title":{"rendered":"(5)  DID YOU KNOW?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While negligence cases are usually inappropriate for summary judgment, \u201ca court may resolve the duty element without a trier of fact because \u2018the existence of a duty is nonetheless a question of law.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/12-67.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Woodruff v. Gitlow<\/em>, No. 2012-67-M.P.<\/a> at 8 (citing <em>Wyso v. Full Moon Tide, LLC<\/em>, 78 A.3d 747, 750 (R.I. 2013)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While negligence cases are usually inappropriate for summary judgment, \u201ca court may resolve the duty element without a trier of fact because \u2018the existence of a duty is nonetheless a question of law.\u2019\u201d Woodruff v. Gitlow, No. 2012-67-M.P. at 8 (citing Wyso&#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":[75],"tags":[35,14,91],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trial","tag-rhode-island-superior-court-practice","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court","tag-summary-judgment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}