Legal Opinion
Rivera v. Pocono Whitewaters Adventures
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 17, 1997PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barry Salman, J.), entered July 10, 1996, which, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and held that Pennsylvania law applies to the action, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of finding that New York law applies, and otherwise affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
In resolving conflict-of-law questions, courts must apply “the law of the jurisdiction which, because of its relationship or contact with the occurrence or the parties, has the greatest concern with the specific issue raised in the…
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