Personal Injury & Torts
Jul. 31, 2014
Laws without teeth will leave swimmers on the line
It is difficult to say what "ordinary care" might consist of in the context of fishing for sharks off a public beach, but I would argue that a duty to warn is warranted at the very least. By Daniel N. Roberts
In Steven Spielbergs's 1975 film "Jaws," the local police chief unsuccessfully attempts to close the Amity Island beaches during the Fourth of July weekend following an attack by a giant, man-eating great white shark. What happens instead over the Fourth? You know what happens ... little Alex Kintner is attacked and dies in a pool of blood just a short distance offshore of his onlooking, panicked mother.
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