Overlawyered » amusement parks http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Roller coasters and limbless guests http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/roller-coasters-and-limbless-guests/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/roller-coasters-and-limbless-guests/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:02:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27327 A 17-year-old born without hands is disappointed at being excluded from Sea World’s “Kraken,” but “Katie Champagne’s misery is the result of a litigious society, not heartless theme parks.” [Beth Kassab, Orlando Sentinel; error corrected on name of theme park operator, thanks commenter P. McC.]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/roller-coasters-and-limbless-guests/feed/ 3 Before being suspended over hungry crocodiles http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/before-being-suspended-over-hungry-crocodiles/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/before-being-suspended-over-hungry-crocodiles/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:13:59 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23439 You’ll need to sign a really strong liability release [St. Petersburg Times]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/before-being-suspended-over-hungry-crocodiles/feed/ 8 U.K.: “Butlins bans bumping on the bumper cars” http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/u-k-butlins-bans-bumping-on-the-bumper-cars/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/u-k-butlins-bans-bumping-on-the-bumper-cars/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:23:18 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23360 The best-known operator of British amusement parks has ordered its staff “to ban anyone found guilty of bumping into each other in the electric cars equipped with huge bumpers. Bemused customers who assume that the ‘no bumping sign’ is in jest are told to drive around slowly in circles rather than crash into anyone else for fear of an injury that could result in the resort being sued.” [Louise Gray, Telegraph via Free-Range Kids]

Also: California appellate court rejects assumption of risk defense and denies summary judgment to bumper car injury claim [Bill Childs, MassTort.org]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/u-k-butlins-bans-bumping-on-the-bumper-cars/feed/ 6 Life imitates legal cliche: injury plaintiff winds up owning amusement park http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/life-imitates-legal-cliche-injury-plaintiff-winds-up-owning-amusement-park/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/life-imitates-legal-cliche-injury-plaintiff-winds-up-owning-amusement-park/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 05:12:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22866 Pruett Nance was hurt riding an all-terrain vehicle on the grounds of a no-longer-operating theme park in Arkansas, Dogpatch USA. The owners having not paid a $650,000 judgment, a judge has awarded Nance ownership of the park. [Arkansas Online via Childs, TortsProf]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/life-imitates-legal-cliche-injury-plaintiff-winds-up-owning-amusement-park/feed/ 6 October 11 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-11-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-11-roundup/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:09:19 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19630
  • “Feds seek to halt inmate’s frequent lawsuits” [AP; J.L. Riches]
  • “SeaWorld Blasts ‘Improper’ Suit Over Trainer’s Death” [OnPoint News, earlier]
  • Does new NY law serve as road map for charities that wish to defy donor intent? [CultureGrrl]
  • Cruise ship case an example of tensions that arise when defense lawyers jump fence to join plaintiffs’ side [Julie Kay, DBR]
  • More on Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal’s “my lawsuits create jobs” stance [Bainbridge; related, New York Times Magazine (opponent MacMahon: "His business is suing people.")]
  • Australia: “Autistic student sues over test” [The Age]
  • “The most conservative court? Hardly” [Jacoby, Globe] And Justice Breyer, for one, has “rejected the notion that the U.S. Supreme Court has a pro-business slant and said the court doesn’t rule in favor of companies any more frequently than it has historically.” [Bloomberg via Adler, Volokh]
  • “Abducted by aliens? Call now for compensation” [four years ago on Overlawyered; Germany]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-11-roundup/feed/ 0     SeaWorld lawsuit: seeing orca attack traumatized our kid http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/seaworld-lawsuit-seeing-orca-attack-traumatized-our-kid/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/seaworld-lawsuit-seeing-orca-attack-traumatized-our-kid/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:21:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19037 “A New Hampshire family who witnessed the Feb. 24 death of a killer-whale trainer at SeaWorld Orlando has sued the company in state court in Orlando, claiming their child was traumatized by the event.” [Orlando Sentinel]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/seaworld-lawsuit-seeing-orca-attack-traumatized-our-kid/feed/ 9     “Sick Duck: Did Tigger and Donald Duck grope women at Disney World?” http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/sick-duck-did-tigger-and-donald-duck-grope-women-at-disney-world/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/sick-duck-did-tigger-and-donald-duck-grope-women-at-disney-world/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:47:14 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18898 William Saletan investigates a curious genre of harassment case [Slate; more at Atlantic Wire]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/sick-duck-did-tigger-and-donald-duck-grope-women-at-disney-world/feed/ 0     May 5 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/may-5-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/may-5-roundup/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 19:04:11 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17239
  • Jury rules for Disney in case of man who said Tower of Terror theme park ride caused him to have stroke [Orlando Sentinel]
  • The most dangerous place on earth is getting caught between Dick Blumenthal and a television camera.” Craigslist snipes back against demagogic Connecticut AG [Craigslist blog, Antle/American Spectator, earlier]
  • U.K.: prisoner falls from bunk bed, wins £4.7m [Times Online]
  • New York Times jealously guards its own sources’ right to speak with anonymity, doesn’t feel quite that way about others’ [Stoll]
  • SUNY Buffalo mathematician/HuffPo blogger: why’d they let that awful Eugene Volokh into the country? [Volokh vs. Jonathan David Farley, Greenfield, background]
  • College journalist won’t face criminal trespass charges after all in showdown over photographing escaped cows [Romenesko and update]
  • Regulating “the American palate” — by what authority? [Healy, Examiner] More links on FDA salt regulation [Compton/CEI, ShopFloor (on CSPI), earlier here, here, etc.]
  • Why one putative beneficiary decided not to file $2 claim after settlement of AT&T class action [Chidem Kurdas, Christian Science Monitor]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/may-5-roundup/feed/ 1     Disneyland’s babysitter list http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/disneylands-babysitter-list/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/disneylands-babysitter-list/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:13:17 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=16888 Cory Doctorow describes what sounds like a heavily lawyered-up recommendation process. [Flickr]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/disneylands-babysitter-list/feed/ 0     Welcome Above the Law readers (Sea World killer whale lawsuit?) http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/welcome-above-the-law-readers-sea-world-killer-whale-lawsuit/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/welcome-above-the-law-readers-sea-world-killer-whale-lawsuit/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:55:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=16291 Reporting on possible legal angles arising from a veteran trainer’s death, the popular blog links to this post of ours from last year about how Florida amusement and theme parks appear to be aggressive and successful in defending against litigation.

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