Appeals Court Affirms Finding for Motocross Riders

A Texas appeals court has affirmed a jury’s verdict that a motocross track operator acted with “gross negligence” when it moved a bulldozer from one part of the track to another without advising the participants, resulting in an injury to the participants.   In so doing the panel of judges quashed the defendant’s argument that the participants’ signing of a waiver should release it from the claims, or that the participants were somehow “contributorily negligent.” The judged di