Labrie v. Pace Membership Warehouse, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• limiting the application of the rule to “crisis created by a defendant’s ordinary negligence”
• describing risk or injury during a prearranged inspection of premises as “remote”
• describing risk or injury during a prearranged inspection of premises as \remote\
• “[t]he rule bars suit by a public-safety officer only in circumstances in which he or she is injured by a defendant’s ordinary negligence” (emphasis added)
• public-safety officer’s rule did not apply to bar suit by a fire department superintendent injured during a routine inspection of a newly installed fire alarm and sprinkler system
• “In Rhode Island the rule has had a limited application to those situations (such as fighting fires or crimes in progress) in which a crisis or an emergency causes the hurried intervention of public-safety officers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).