First Amendment Watch + Nanny State Continued....

[alfreda89]

The Hawaii House calls it "Duty to Warn."

How about a law "'that would impose civil liability on writers and publishers of travel guides if a reader "suffers an injury or dies" after engaging in an activity or trespassing to reach a site "depicted or described" in the publication.'"

Why yes, there's a bull in that field, but the guide doesn't say anything about him being dangerous, so we should be able to cut across here....

[head smack]

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[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Ah. I can relate to their problem, then. They can ask tour sites and places selling the book to put up warning signs, but a nice, tidy law would be so much simpler. Except it isn't, and usually effects all kinds of unanticipated things. Lawyers can panic over everything -- and in these litigious times, sometimes you can't blame them.

Trespassing sounds like bad advice at any time -- and aren't all the beaches in Hawaii free (IE no restrictions to passage?)