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Showing posts with label assumption of risk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assumption of risk. Show all posts
Thursday, November 12, 2026

Negligence suit beats liability waiver at kids' gym

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Stuck in the Middle , 2010 DieselDemon via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A liability waiver at a children's gym cannot block a negligence suit over a...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Gutting consumer protection is not libertarian

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The Trump administration is gutting consumer protection upon a policy at odds with market freedom. Moves such as the dismantling of the Cons...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Foul-ball injuries persist at baseball games

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Pixabay CC0 1.0 via Get Archive The American Museum of Tort Law (AMTL) hosted a Zoom panel Thursday on the problem of foul balls injuring...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Acuerdo en inglés para arbitrar vincula al firmante de habla hispana aunque no lo entendió, tribunal concluye

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(English translation by Google: Agreement in English to arbitrate binds Spanish-speaking signatory even though he did not understand it, cou...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

'Marketplace' features book, film, Wisconsin law class on wild risks at shuttered N.J. water park

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Action Park fun in 1994 (Joe Shlabotnik CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) Marketplace today features a torts course about accident risk an...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Police negligence suit against BLM organizer goes ahead after La. Supreme Court greenlights duty

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BLM protest in Baton Rouge in 2015 (Alisdare Hickson CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) A lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesso...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

'1,000 Places to Fall to Your Death,' Utah edition, means American tort law hasn't undermined pioneer spirit

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I can't help but check out the tortscape when I travel.  As mentioned last week, I have been traveling recently in Utah.  The sights ar...
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Monday, January 11, 2021

Uber suffers high court loss, but binding arbitration, blanket disclaimers still devastate consumer rights

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Image by Mike Lang CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Signs of life were spotted on the dead planet of consumer rights in click-wrap agreements. But don'...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

No recklessness, no liability, court affirms in case of head injury during softball batting practice

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mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Applying recklessness doctrine in a non-competitive context, the Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday affirmed...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Waiver of negligence precludes later suit by family, high court holds in nursing home, diving death cases

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Image by edar from Pixabay In two cases at the end of February, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made clear that a person's...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Teachable torts: Halloween haunted houses strain hallowed American right to make poor choices

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As the sun sets in the U.S. East, I was prepared to let Halloween slide by on the blog, even though so many great tort-related items perenni...