resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamondwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1276arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1270arrow-down1external-link‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamondwww.independent.co.ukresipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square88fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFenrirIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoLiterally just had a case in my Tort Law class about this very thing. I think you don’t know anything at all.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·15 days agoI know in my scenario under tort, the gun range or someone further down in the construction of the range would be found liable, and not the shooter.
minus-squaregrindemup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoIANAL but isn’t this issue of responsibility obviously determined based on the liability waiver that gun range attendees sign? I’d be pretty shocked if gun ranges don’t include personal injury and wrongful death clauses in their liability waiver.
Literally just had a case in my Tort Law class about this very thing. I think you don’t know anything at all.
I know in my scenario under tort, the gun range or someone further down in the construction of the range would be found liable, and not the shooter.
IANAL but isn’t this issue of responsibility obviously determined based on the liability waiver that gun range attendees sign? I’d be pretty shocked if gun ranges don’t include personal injury and wrongful death clauses in their liability waiver.