Newnan Pratlaw Essay: The Olympics and Injury



The tragic death at the 2010 Olympic Games highlights and illustrates two of the primary legal issues involved when a person is hurt or killed on the property of another. They are the legal doctrines of: (1) Superior Knowledge of a Dangerous Instrumentality versus equal knowledge of it, and; (2) Assumption of Risk. The young Luger's story is discussed in this recent article discussing the two issues surrounding whether anyone other than the deceased is responsible for his death. ||ARTICLE||

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