Court Opinion

ID: 9883922
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 02:26:01.56061+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:33.170728
License: Public Domain

PARKER, Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent.
If, as appellant’s expert asserts, the manufacturers and installers of swimming pools are in possession of empirical data establishing that diving into the shallow end of pools is substantially more dangerous than is generally known, the sale of such instruments without appropriate warnings would justify imposition of liability upon the possessors of the special knowledge.
Paraplegia and quadraplegia are common injuries to persons laboring under the misapprehension that “flat diving” is reasonably safe in the shallow end of a backyard pool. An appropriate description to be applied to an enterprise fostering such tragedy in seeking profit was used by a federal judge of this district; it is “corporate irresponsibility at its meanest.” This case should not be decided on summary judgment.