Corinaldi v. Columbia Courtyard, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that bifurcation of the liability and penalty phases of a trial between separate juries was within the court’s discretion
• observing that, “[g]enerally, a property owner owes the same duty to the guest of an invitee as it owes to the invitee himself,” and holding that a hotel owed a duty of care to the guest of a hotel guest
• setting out three general theories under which a landowner may be held liable when someone is injured by third-party criminal activities on the premises
• imposing duty, where hotel manager called the police ten minutes after being notified that a party in a hotel room was “out of control” and an attendee had a gun
• innkeeper/business invitee, reversing summary judgment for innkeeper against guest of guest who was shot in hotel room based on evidence that hotel employee delayed calling police after being “advised that someone had a gun”
• “Whether a plaintiff has presented sufficient evidence of the elements of negligence is generally a question for the fact finder, but the existence of a legal duty is a question of law to be decided by the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).