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Youth and Adult Molesters
Parks and Rec Business Magazine has a great article on background checks for adult volunteers of youth sports. It is a well written and well researched article that talks about an issue that is a...
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Minnesota decision upholds parent’s right to sign away a minor’s right to sue.
Case was a baseball camp where the minor was injured during horseplay. Moore vs. Minnesota Baseball Instructional School, 2009 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 299 This is a pretty simple case. The defendants...
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Releases are legal documents and need to be written by an attorney that...
Wycoff v. Grace Community Church of the Assemblies of God, 2010 Colo. App. LEXIS 1832 The case is a little confusing to read because there was another case that was appealed by the same parties whom...
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Wrong release for the activity almost sinks YMCA
A release must apply to the activity and the person who you want to make sure cannot sue you. McGowan et al v. West End YMCA, 2002 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 3018 Image via Wikipedia In this case, a...
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Statutes and prospective language to allow a parent to sign away a minor’s...
Now is the time to move a statute like this forward in your state. Three states allow a parent to sign away a child’s right to sue by statute: Alaska, Florida and Colorado. Five (maybe 6) states allow...
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Release stops suit for falling off horse at Colorado summer Camp.
Hamill v. Cheley Colorado Camps, Inc., 2011 Colo. App. LEXIS 495 I always enjoy it when people with money, sue to get more money….. In this case, the minor plaintiff fell off a horse and suffered a...
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Summer camp supervision issues are always part of any lawsuit and tough to...
Kosok v. Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater New York, 24 A.D.2d 113; 264 N.Y.S.2d 123; 1965 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3042 As long as there was no notice of a problem and no rule of the camp or...
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Iowa does not allow a parent to sign away a minor’s right to sue.
Galloway v. State of Iowa, 790 N.W.2d 252; 2010 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 109 Iowa follows the majority of states finding that the state has an interest in protecting kids from allowing their parents to think....
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Alabama follows the majority of states and does not allow a parent to sign...
J.T., Jr., a minor v. Monster Mountain, Llc, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130407; 78 Fed. R. Serv. 3d (Callaghan) 182 This is an interesting case based on who actually signed the release on behalf of and in...
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Florida statute that allows a parent to release a minor’s right to sue
TITLE 43. DOMESTIC RELATIONS (Chs. 741-753) CHAPTER 744. GUARDIANSHIP PART III. TYPES OF GUARDIANSHIP GO TO FLORIDA STATUTES ARCHIVE DIRECTORY Fla. Stat. § 744.301 (2012) § 744.301. Natural...
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Information, Education and knowledge prevent a mother from suing a camp and...
Buck, v. Camp Wilkes, Inc. 906 So. 2d 778; 2004 Miss. App. LEXIS 1141 Besides top bunk of a bunk bed is just not a dangerous instrumentality. The mother of a thirteen-year old girl sued the Girl Scouts...
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This article takes a real look at the risks parents allow their children to face
A parent and a child together, anywhere, are safer than a child alone at home. This is a great essay on parenting, and the risks that a parent chooses to allow a child to face. The article looks at...
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Parental control: should you, are you accepting responsibility for kids and...
Once you accept responsibility, you are opening yourself up for any problem the minor may encounter. This scenario came to me, and my reaction was the exact opposite of the person telling me about it....
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