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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Jan 14 2009
To help or not?
In all the talk about the Good Samaritan laws and the case of Alexandra Van Horn v. Lisa Torti folks might forget that the original case was not about strangers, but about companions out on the town together and that the car accident happened after an evening of at least some drinking, preceded by at least some marijuana use. I don't know how the authorities ever got straight testimony from anyone involved with all those factors, but I wasn't there, so I don't know how competent any of the individuals might have been at that time. And the whole incident happened on Halloween night, though technically it was early on November 1. So the case seems unique. The case ever being used to set a precedent for judgments in general cases of the actions of a Good Samaritan who comes to the aid of a stranger in trouble puzzles me to no end.
posted at: 08:12 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
In all the talk about the Good Samaritan laws and the case of Alexandra Van Horn v. Lisa Torti folks might forget that the original case was not about strangers, but about companions out on the town together and that the car accident happened after an evening of at least some drinking, preceded by at least some marijuana use. I don't know how the authorities ever got straight testimony from anyone involved with all those factors, but I wasn't there, so I don't know how competent any of the individuals might have been at that time. And the whole incident happened on Halloween night, though technically it was early on November 1. So the case seems unique. The case ever being used to set a precedent for judgments in general cases of the actions of a Good Samaritan who comes to the aid of a stranger in trouble puzzles me to no end.
posted at: 08:12 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
