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From: wtm%gr.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas McCollough)
Subject: Re: Looking for recommendation.
Date: 9 Apr 91 16:16:17 MDT
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.161617.3226@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: Engineering Geometry Systems
References: <6107@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <1991Apr9.045645.15819@umbc3.umbc.edu>

In article <1991Apr9.045645.15819@umbc3.umbc.edu> robie@umbc1.umbc.edu writes:
>In article <6107@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, nouveaux@poipu.EBay.Sun.COM (John J. Nouveaux, Sun Microsystems Education) writes...
>>Anyone know the names of any skydiving literate attorneys (preferrably
>>in the San Francisco Bay Area)?
>> 
>>My wife was injured on her first jump last summer at a non-USPA school
>>which uses (in our and a former instructor friend of mine opinions)
>>several unsafe practices for first-jumpers (including not following
>>several of USPA's regulations/recommendations).
>
>John -
>
>I really hate to sound like I am not sympathetic, because I am most deeply
>sorry that your wife was injured.  I do, however, feel compelled to make
>the following comments:

[Comments deleted.]

Robie's comments are my own.

And I also agree with the poster who asked for more information.  But
at first glance, this public request for legal recommendations is a
slap in the face to those of us who realize we are responsible for our
own actions.  Isn't that almost everyone who reads this bulletin
board?  The concept of assumed risk should be well understood by
experienced skydivers, and especially by skydiving instructors.

Tom McCollough