Najarian v. National Amusements, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the place of the injury and the conduct allegedly causing the injury occurred in Massachusetts and ultimately finding that Massachusetts law applied
• explaining that the interest-weighing approach determines the \state [that] `bears the most significant relationship to the event and the parties.'\ (quoting Cribb v. Augustyn , 696 A.2d 285 , 288 (R.I. 1997))
• involving a plaintiff who fell on a Rhode Island business defendant's Massachusetts property
• “When a defendant is inexplicably subjected to arbitrary, unfair, and egregious action at the hands of the State, principles of fundamental fairness require our intervention.”
• Rhode Island choice of law principles look to law of place of injury, location of conduct causing injury, residence of parties and place where parties’ relationship is centered
• applying Massachusetts substantive law to plaintiff's negligence action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).