Court Opinion

ID: 9647944
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:56:12.679347+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:24:06.811622
License: Public Domain

MURPHY, Chief Judge,
concurring in the result.
The Court’s reversal of summary judgment for the defendant is grounded on the allegations of the amended complaint and other evidence of record favorable to the plaintiff’s claim. The Court’s mandate remands the case “for further proceedings”, ostensibly including the possibility of another summary judgment motion based on further evidentiary material developed in the summary judgment process by the defendant. As it now stands, however, I concur only in the result reached by the Court, and not in what I perceive may be an overly broad general explication of the principles governing application of the “duty” component in negligence actions, beyond that which is necessary to the decision in this case.
Judge CHASANOW has authorized me to state that he joins in this opinion.