Rodeo Participant Understood Risk Before Ill-fated Ride

Where a participant in a rodeo made a “deliberate, considered, and voluntary decision to ride” an animal that had a propensity for injuring its riders that participant has assumed a risk of injury that severely limits his legal recourse, the Supreme Court of Nebraska has ruled in a majority decision affirming a trial court’s decision to grant summary judgment to the defendants.   Troy Burke was an 18-year-old veteran of junior rodeos when he entered the bareback event of a high school