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· 8/12/1993

Baptiste v. Sheriff of Bristol County

Citations

  • 617 N.E.2d 641
  • 35 Mass. App. Ct. 119

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “[bjecause of application of the reasonable person standard to facts sufficient to raise a genuine issue as to whether a reasonable person in a defendants position would have acted differently, summary judgment is rarely granted in negligence actions”
  • no error in \disregard[ing] the affidavit from the plaintiff's expert\ in granting defendants' motion for summary judgment where \many of the expert's statements [we]re based upon assumptions proved faulty by the undisputed facts\ and \would not be admissible at any trial\

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Judges: Perretta, Greenberg, Laurence

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