Bouchard wins her lawsuit against the USTA, seeking millions in damages.

Do you think this was the correct verdict?

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anhtuanngo said:
it'll probably be her last win of the year anyways...

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Almost every country I can think of has similar laws.

What did you want Bouchard to do?

Get on a plane and go home to change her underwear and have a pee?

She relied on the USTA to provide safe facilites.

They failed.

Boom-Boom said:
LOL the US are a crazy country where you can sue anyone when you just fall on the floor like a ****

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There are details of the facts and the law in question that make it hard for folks not having access to all those details to render a properly informed opinion on the reasonableness of the verdict.

As in the current case, some jurisdictions allow apportionment of the liability, and whether a given party is 0%, 20%, 75%, or 100% liable really does depend on many of the more subtle details of the case. In most states, there is a common expectation that people will be kept out of unsafe areas with signage and/or physical barriers. Once this common expectation exists, liability awards are expected in cases where injury occurs where the signage and physical barriers were lacking.

Is this application of law right and fair? That's a different debate. But if an unsafe situation is created and someone gets hurt, there will often be an award.

My wife and I do a lot of consulting work in injury cases, and unless the unsafe situation cannot have possibly caused the injury claimed, most efforts are spent keeping the size of the award within the reasonable losses of the plaintiff rather than getting a "not liable" verdict.

Significant head injuries are possible falling from standing onto a hard surface. So the reasonableness of any award will depend on the magnitude and type of actual injuries, and assessing those depends access to detailed medical and other records that the general public does not have.
 
qindarka said:
I wish people wouldn't let their personal dislike of Bouchard cloud their judgement in this case.
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Yeah, but that's how it goes around here. It's like a mob mentality. Some really funny content in this thread. Like the jokes about which court she's winning on etc..., but I think the right call was made here. I don't even care what happens to Bouchard anymore. She's irrelevant from a tennis standpoint, but again, I think the ruling was correct.
 
If the facts are the floor was wet and no signs posted of it being wet. sure, they are liable. They are NOT liable for it to be career damaging. Top seeds get upset in early rounds a lot. You cannot estimate how far her frail mind would go in a tournament. Genie (Payday) Bouchard. She is such a vile and vindictive _ _ _ _ _
 
a10best said:
If the facts are the floor was wet and no signs posted of it being wet. sure, they are liable. They are NOT liable for it to be career damaging. Top seeds get upset in early rounds a lot. You cannot estimate how far her frail mind would go in a tournament. Genie (Payday) Bouchard. She is such a vile and vindictive _ _ _ _ _
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Career damaging is a bit dramatic for sure, but the important point is that they were liable.
 
This is Extremely correct. USTA is responsible for adequate lighting or ability to turn on the lighting to the workout room. If you don't want the athlete entering ,,, just LOCK the door. Genie should get around 4-5 million dollars in damages and for mental anguish Plus all the lawyer expenses that Genie had to incur. This is the correct ruling and mine as well. Case Closed........
 
The primary dispute was whether the facility was shut or not, or should have been shut or not, or if shut why was it enterable at all if cleaned and dangerous, etc.

It was also compounded by the fact that there are WTA trainers and therefore whether she knew that facilities were not usable without them or why, in effect, were they not available for her late finish, etc.

Very simply put, i think the facilites should have been open and safely managed to the last player playing left.
 
Nostradamus said:
This is Extremely correct. USTA is responsible for adequate lighting or ability to turn on the lighting to the workout room. If you don't want the athlete entering ,,, just LOCK the door. Genie should get around 4-5 million dollars in damages and for mental anguish Plus all the lawyer expenses that Genie had to incur. This is the correct ruling and mine as well. Case Closed........
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If you enter a dark room, why would you not turn the lights on?
Please tell me how can I sue all the food and beverage companies that built my overweight on the last 20 years.
 
Steve0904 said:
Why not? She slipped on a slippery floor that had no warning signs. She chose to sue. She didn't have to, but she's certainly allowed to. It's not that hard to understand.
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Water in a slippery floor is the warning sign. You should turn the lights on before you enter a dark room.
 
I'v slipped on several floors and have never sued. This verdict is sad, laughable and wrong in every sense of the word.

Not even Goffin sued the french for stepping on the tarp, and if anything he had a million more legitimate reason to do so.
 
Sudacafan said:
Water in a slippery floor is the warning sign. You should turn the lights on before you enter a dark room.
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You should, but then tell me how Bouchard won the case. Surely someone argued she should have turned the lights on. They found her 25% liable anyway. That's probably part of it. The point is that the USTA needed a sign. As for the first part, that doesn't make sense. Lots of people have slipped on slippery surfaces while knowing that they're slick.
 
If the beverage company was telling you that it would keep you healthy and thin, you could indeed sue them if you became overweight primarily because of their product.

Coke, however, does not call itself a health product.

Sudacafan said:
If you enter a dark room, why would you not turn the lights on?
Please tell me how can I sue all the food and beverage companies that built my overweight on the last 20 years.
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Sudacafan said:
If you enter a dark room, why would you not turn the lights on?
Please tell me how can I sue all the food and beverage companies that built my overweight on the last 20 years.
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because you bought those foods. You could have bought Salad but you didn't. that means you deliverately brought on what happened to you. But in genie's case, USTA neglected to make the workout room safe so they are liable for damages and mental anguish that resulted.
 
If you get mouse faeces in your burger or your sushi causes you three days of vomiting, then a tort has been committed and you should be recompensed.

The law of torts is the cornerstone of a rather conservative form of consumer protection, which makes possible public confidence in the services and goods they enjoy.
 
Bartelby said:
If you get mouse faeces in your burger or your sushi causes you three days of vomiting, then a tort has been committed and you should be recompensed.

The law of torts is the cornerstone of a rather conservative form of consumer protection, which makes possible public confidence in the services and goods they enjoy.
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That's a different story.
 
VaporDude95 said:
*Don’t hang around lunatics with guns in gun free zones* and you’ll be alright.

FIFY
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Yeah you will have a lot to fix if you or your family is affected. Then right-wing propaganda will not sound so good to you.

Any idiot who doesn't care about his life can come and kill plenty of people before anyone even realizes and can stop him. Don't believe the nonsense. Even trained army fighters cannot prevent this kind of thing, forget about civilians with a once a year training.
 
sureshs said:
Yeah you will have a lot to fix if you or your family is affected. Then right-wing propaganda will not sound so good to you.

Any idiot who doesn't care about his life can come and kill plenty of people before anyone even realizes and can stop him. Don't believe the nonsense. Even trained army fighters cannot prevent this kind of thing, forget about civilians with a once a year training.
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“Right wing propaganda”?

Just you wait until you risk being JAILED for defending yourself in YOUR OWN DAMN HOME.

It happens all the time and it WILL happen if you lose your rights. Guns don’t shoot people by themselves. You guys need pre screening reform if anything. If anyone knows, it’s me. I’m from Australia....
 
sureshs said:
Yeah you will have a lot to fix if you or your family is affected. Then right-wing propaganda will not sound so good to you.

Any idiot who doesn't care about his life can come and kill plenty of people before anyone even realizes and can stop him. Don't believe the nonsense. Even trained army fighters cannot prevent this kind of thing, forget about civilians with a once a year training.
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If somebody is always to blame, or is responsible for everything, are there no acts of God?
So we are approaching atheism going this way? Are US courts atheist?
By what reason this post will be probably deleted by the moderators?
I am trying to keep this thread alive no matter what. I am bored.
 
Sudacafan said:
If somebody is always to blame, or is responsible for everything, are there no acts of God?
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Acts of God in insurance law refers to natural disasters, not matters like this.

Which is strange because you would think god would not hurt people.

But then you realize that god is a human-created myth based on ignorance and it becomes clear.
 
smart girl, back then she knew that she would decline so she set out this thing to keep making lots of money when she could not playing tennis
 
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