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Opposing Defendant: Hotel Manager

  • Has a party and invites 200-300 people in Rhode Island.
  • Built a new pool in the hotel with a diving board.
  • While sending out the invitations it requires everybody to sign a waiver
  • Waiver states if injured the hotel manager is not responsible for any injury on his property and that must be signed and witnessed before coming into the party.
  • Hotel has signs stating “Enter at your own risk” while entering the pool.
  • Hotel Manager has 15-20 kegs of hard liquor (Cases of them) and food.
  • No Lifeguard (Not required by the state)
  • Pool is opened

Your Defendant/Client: Hedge Fund Manager

  • 35-year-old, 6’5” in height, 280lbs, and is from New Hampshire.
  • He makes 1 million dollars a year
  • He has a spouse and has two kids. The kids ages are 5 & 8. They go to private school and your defendant pays $100,000 a year for their school per total.
  • They live in a house that’s $2,000,000 and has a 1.9 million mortgage on it.
  • They have no savings
  • No disability insurances
  • 2 lease cars a Porsche 911 that’s $1,500 a month and a BMW at $800 a month.
  • The husband is intoxicated from alcohol and starts to jump on the diving board to impress his kids. He then dives into the pool and breaks his neck and become a quadriplegic (Affected by or relating to paralysis of all four limbs).

 

 

  1. You the attorney must defend your client in anyway or form.
  • Think about the three defenses to a tort action. 1. Assumption of the risk 2. Comparative negligence. 3. Intervening force

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