Trump Rally Attendees Cannot Sue if They Get Covid-19, Campaign Says

[RandySF]

As President Trump moves to resume indoor campaign rallies, his campaign has added a twist to his optimistic push to return to life as it was before the pandemic: Attendees cannot sue the campaign or the venue if they contract the virus at the event.

“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to Covid-19 exists in any public place where people are present,” a statement on Mr. Trump’s campaign website informed those wishing to attend his June 19 rally in Tulsa, Okla. “By attending the rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to Covid-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.”

Mr. Trump’s rally in Tulsa, the site of a massacre of black residents in 1921, will be on Juneteenth, a prominent African-American holiday recognizing the end of slavery in the United States. The rally will also be his first since the pandemic forced most of the country into quarantine three months ago, a campaign official said Wednesday. Polls have shown former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. establishing a substantial lead over Mr. Trump.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/world/coronavirus-live-updates.html?referringSource=articleShare

[Hekate]

1. He's so consistent with that "hoax" story

[riversedge]

2. Fans sould be required to have health care Insurance before they attend. yes. yes.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Yes they can...he and his team use this as a bluff. Nothing you sign can relieve another

of negligence, last time I checked.

But I know you are posting the headline.

[LisaL]

4. So they are going to place Trump (who is not going to wear a mask)

with however many people (who are also not going to wear masks, I presume). Aren't they concerned he is the one who is going to get covid?
Cause hydroxychlorquine doesn't actually prevent it.

[badhair77]

5. Well, as our "leader" he needs to try this congregating first.

Should be interesting.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Yes, I believe the attendees CAN sue and get around the Disclaimer.

Intentional torts require some level of intent to be committed, such as the intent to batter someone. Negligence torts don’t require intent to harm but require some level of carelessness or neglect. Strict liability torts require neither intent nor carelessness. In fact, if strict liability applies, it is irrelevant how carelessly, or how carefully, the defendant acted. It doesn’t matter if the defendant took every precaution to avoid harm—if someone is harmed in a situation where strict liability applies, then the defendant is liable.

Since this rule can have harsh consequences, it applies in a only few limited circumstances. One of those circumstances is when the defendant is engaged in an ultrahazardous activity. An ultrahazardous activity is one that is so inherently dangerous that the risk to human life is great if anything wrong happens, so the person carrying out the ultrahazardous activity is held strictly liable for those activities. Transporting dangerous chemicals or nuclear waste, for example, is inherently dangerous. If the chemicals spill, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to prevent injury to property or persons. Similarly, businesses that use dynamite, such as building demolition crews, run the risk that no matter how careful they are, people or property could be damaged by intentionally igniting dynamite. Therefore, strict liability applies.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/montgomerycollege-masterybusinesslaw3/chapter/strict-liability-in-business/#:~:text=An%20ultrahazardous%20activity%20is%20one,strictly%20liable%20for%20those%20activities.&text=Therefore%2C%20strict%20liability%20applies.

Asking spectators into a venue that is so inherently dangerous that they cannot possibly assume the risk of harm makes this situation a class action strict liability tort.

Call me if you need a lawyer . . . . . . .

[zak247]

7. If...

Those fools go in there and start yelling and screaming on each other without masks it will be a disaster.

I wonder will most of them wear masks?

[lame54]

8. Can anybody sue anybody for Covid

[kskiska]

9. He doesn't like to see masks

so maybe they'll be banned.

[Gothmog]

10. Can mentally impaired idiots grant a valid waiver

Link to tweet

[walkingman]

11. I hope every damn one of them get sick.

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Me too.

As a COPD patient, and someone who has experienced extreme shortness of breath, I wouldn't wish anyone would die from anything similar, but I sure as hell hope most of them get sick and begin to understand what an asshole Trumpy is.

But they won't stay away and a shitload will get sick and some will die, just because they went to see an utter fraud sell them more bullshit in an arena.

[Lucinda]

12. KNR