Accident on Ski Lift Is Covered by Recreational Safety Act

Mar 16, 2007

The 10th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s decision, declining to consider whether the Wyoming Recreational Safety Act was unconstitutional because the plaintiffs did not sufficiently first raise the issue at the trial court level.   A jury decided after a three-day trial before a magistrate judge that the injury that Sharon Muller suffered while attempting to board a gondola was an inherent risk of skiing under the RSA, precluding any recovery for the plainti
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