Fasolamatt checks in and helps out during a very busy time. Two more days until Thanksgiving, three more until the Prep Bowl, five or so until we collapse. Whee! But yes, here is The Commenter Talker Of the Day:
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The WSJ Law Blog is usually of interest only professionally, but today's installment is, well, awesome. We visit Canada, where a court in Nova Scotia has legally defined the "Happy Gilmore" shot in golf... the defendant in the case claimed he wasn't guilty of anything because "an unexpected hook of a shot by a player who usually sliced the ball was not a basis for liability for hitting another player, as it was not foreseeable that his ball would go where it did." The court found different: "The defendant's conduct breached the standard of care required of a golfer playing on a course with other golfers. The defendant's behaviour was not among the 'natural risks' of golfing to which the plaintiff can be said to have consented."
One blogger notes: "looking at the facts of the case, they are pretty much exactly what you would expect from a bachelor party golf outing that involved dozens of beers, a bottle of tequila, several marijuana joints smoked "before the third hole," "power slides" in the golf carts and clubs smashed against trees." Here's a link to the whole case file, which reads like pretty much every bachelor party on a golf course that I've ever been to, except we didn't injure anyone quite as seriously. We have a lot of newlyweds in the RandBall group ... anyone get arrested at your bachelor parties?
