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Liability For Crossfit Trainers, Law Review Mar 2015

Liability For Crossfit Trainers, Law Review

GGU Law Review Blog

Even though injuries in CrossFit are not unusual, just like they’re not unusual or unexpected in any physical activity, the main issue in this post is how much responsibility should a CrossFit trainer have if an athlete does get hurt?


Media Violence Tort Cases: Problems Of Causation And The First Amendment, David Franklyn Jan 2000

Media Violence Tort Cases: Problems Of Causation And The First Amendment, David Franklyn

Publications

Introduction to the Northern Kentucky Law Review Symposium 2000.


Introduction To The Northern Kentucky Law Review Products Liability Symposium 1999, David Franklyn Jan 1999

Introduction To The Northern Kentucky Law Review Products Liability Symposium 1999, David Franklyn

Publications

Introduction to the Northern Kentucky Law Review Products Liability Symposium 1999.


The Apparent Manufacturer Doctrine, Trademark Licensors And The Third Restatement Of Torts, David Franklyn Jan 1999

The Apparent Manufacturer Doctrine, Trademark Licensors And The Third Restatement Of Torts, David Franklyn

Publications

In this Article, I argue that trademark licensors should be subjected to liability under the apparent manufacturer doctrine in two situations: (1) when a licensor induces consumers to believe the licensor manufactured the product, or (2) when a licensor induces consumers to believe that the licensor controlled the standards or specifications for manufacturing the product. Under either prong of the proposed test, a plaintiff would be required to show that a reasonable consumer of the licensed product would have relied on the trademark in the requisite manner. Once the plaintiff makes this showing, courts would then presume that the actual …


Will We Lose The War Against Asbestos In Buildings?, Assembly Office Of Research Feb 1988

Will We Lose The War Against Asbestos In Buildings?, Assembly Office Of Research

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Joint Hearing On Proposition 51, Senate Committee On Judiciary, Assembly Committee On Judiciary Apr 1986

Joint Hearing On Proposition 51, Senate Committee On Judiciary, Assembly Committee On Judiciary

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Staff Report Of The Joint Committee On Tort Liability To The Governor And Legislature, Joint Committee On Tort Liability Jan 1979

Staff Report Of The Joint Committee On Tort Liability To The Governor And Legislature, Joint Committee On Tort Liability

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Transcript Of Hearing On Procedural Reform, Joint Committee On Tort Liability Nov 1977

Transcript Of Hearing On Procedural Reform, Joint Committee On Tort Liability

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Transcript Of Hearing On Government Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability Oct 1977

Transcript Of Hearing On Government Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Transcript Of Hearing On Products Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability Jul 1977

Transcript Of Hearing On Products Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Transcript Of Hearing On Professional Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability Jul 1977

Transcript Of Hearing On Professional Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Gonzi V. Superior Court Of San Francisco, Jesse W. Carter Feb 1959

Gonzi V. Superior Court Of San Francisco, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Court granted writ of mandate directing the trial court to permit plaintiff to have a court reporter to be present when she submitted to a court ordered physical examination by a doctor employed by defendants in a negligence suit.


Courtell V. Mceachen [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Feb 1959

Courtell V. Mceachen [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The evidence supported the theory that a five-year-old minor child was contributorily negligent with respect to her injuries, so it was reversible error to give the jury an instruction that negated the child's contributory negligence.


Hunter V. Mohawk Petroleum Corp. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jan 1959

Hunter V. Mohawk Petroleum Corp. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A California gas station was not liable for personal injury one customer caused to another customer where no evidence showed that the gas station was on notice that the customer was acting, or might act, negligently.


Gomes V. Byrne [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jan 1959

Gomes V. Byrne [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Because plaintiff assumed the risk that a dog barking at him through a fence would bite him if he entered through the gate of the fence, the dog's owner was not liable for injuries resulting from the dog bite.


Laird V. T. W. Mather, Inc. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Nov 1958

Laird V. T. W. Mather, Inc. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

In a personal injury action brought by a customer against a department store, the trial court committed reversible error by instructing the jury on the presumption of due care after the customer had testified as to her own acts and conduct.


San Francisco V. Ho Sing, Jesse W. Carter Oct 1958

San Francisco V. Ho Sing, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Municipality had a right to recover indemnity from property owners for the amount it was compelled to pay a pedestrian for injuries received when she fell over a defective skylight in a sidewalk in front of the abutting property owners' premises.


Kollert V. Cundiff [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Sep 1958

Kollert V. Cundiff [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A jury instruction on contributory negligence with respect to an adult passenger was prejudicial where the jury might have believed that the driver's negligence was attributable to the adult riding in the car.


Deshotel V. Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jul 1958

Deshotel V. Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Where the legislature had not changed the common law rule that a wife could not recover for the loss of consortium resulting from her husband's negligent injury, the wife had no claim for such losses against those who caused her husband's injury.


Alarid V. Vanier [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jul 1958

Alarid V. Vanier [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Although a driver rear-ended another car, there was sufficient evidence for a jury to conclude that the driver took reasonable steps to maintain his brakes, and therefore the driver was able to overcome the statutory presumption of negligence.


Trust V. Arden Farms Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Apr 1958

Trust V. Arden Farms Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur was not applicable where defendant relinquished all control of the instrumentality that caused the injury and the plaintiff failed to show that its condition did not change since defendant relinquished control.


Vater V. County Of Glenn [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Mar 1958

Vater V. County Of Glenn [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Governmental immunity barred a wrongful death action brought against an irrigation district by an injured party for the deaths of her husband and son, who were killed when they drove into a canal from a bridge that contained no warning devices


Dow V. Holly Mfg. Co., Jesse W. Carter Feb 1958

Dow V. Holly Mfg. Co., Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A general contractor was liable for the negligent installation of a defective gas heater by one of its subcontractors, which caused the death of members of a family residing in the home.


Ambriz V. Petrolane, Ltd., Jesse W. Carter Dec 1957

Ambriz V. Petrolane, Ltd., Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Parents' wrongful death judgments for deaths of their children due to an explosion in their home was upheld against a gas distributor who was liable for independent contractors it employed to deliver the gas, an abnormally dangerous activity.


Daggett V. Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co., Jesse W. Carter Jul 1957

Daggett V. Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co., Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Where impeachment evidence regarding the safe speed for operating a train was admissible and railway failed to request a limiting instruction, husband properly recovered for the loss of his wife and two minor children after a collision.


Garibaldi V. Borchers Bros. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Apr 1957

Garibaldi V. Borchers Bros. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A trial court did not err in giving an instruction on continuing negligence in conjunction with an instruction on last clear chance, and an instruction on a truck driver's right to assume that a minor would exercise the care of a child his age.


Barrera V. De La Torre [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Mar 1957

Barrera V. De La Torre [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The trial court did not err in instructing jury that it could not infer driver's negligence from mere happening of accident, even though facts would support giving of res ipsa loquitur instruction; driver's negligence was question of fact for jury.


Taylor V. Hawkinson [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Feb 1957

Taylor V. Hawkinson [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Compromise verdict for passenger, her husband, and driver of husband's car after first trial did not render issue of liability res judicata on retrial, and judgment on liability was not binding upon driver of other car until after he could attack it.


Brandelius V. San Francisco [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jan 1957

Brandelius V. San Francisco [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

City and county were entitled to a new trial in a survivor's wrongful death suit. Evidence that the city's cable car had the last clear chance to avoid the accident at issue in the trial warranted a jury instruction on the last clear chance doctrine.


Leonard V. Watsonville Community Hospital [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Dec 1956

Leonard V. Watsonville Community Hospital [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Grant of nonsuit as to doctor was proper because the testimony of patient's adverse parties was clear and uncontradicted to effect he was not responsible for leaving clamp in patient's abdomen and there was no rational ground to disbelieve testimony.