Knodle v. Waikiki Gateway Hotel, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the hotel had a special relationship with a hotel guest so as to have a duty to protect the guest from any foreseeable criminal acts
• holding that the hotel had a special relationship with a hotel guest so as to have a duty to protect the guest from any foreseeable criminal acts
• noting that a trial court is under the duty to ensure that a jury will not be misled by the jury instructions and the special verdict form
• observing that our law does not require that the event would not have occurred absent the conduct but instead covers the situation where two or more causes contribute to the harm
• ruling in a negligence action against a hotel, \what is reasonable and unreasonable and whether the defendant's conduct was reasonable in the circumstances are for the jury to decide\
• rejecting a rule that “the defendant’s conduct is not a cause of the event[] if the event would have occurred without it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).