Taylor-Rice v. State

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the circuit court did not err in finding factual causation because the State’s breach of its duty to maintain a guardrail in a reasonably safe condition could be deemed a substantial factor in causing the plaintiffs injuries
• clarifying the scope of a challenged conclusion of law by viewing it in context with the trial court’s other findings and conclusions
• Reviewing court \may affirm a judgment of the trial court on any ground in the record which supports affirmance.\
• noting that, in failing to challenge any of the tidal court’s findings of fact, the State had waived any challenge to those findings and, thus, that they were binding on appeal and citing Kawamata, Farms, Inc. v. United Agri Products, 86 Hawai‘i 214, 252, 948 P.2d 1055, 1093 (1997
• defining the State’s duty with respect to designing, constructing, and maintaining public highways
• discussing the discretionary function exception separately from the elements of negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).