{"id":139060637,"date":"2009-05-29T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T11:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=139060637"},"modified":"2009-05-29T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T11:57:17","slug":"court-rules-bicycling-is-a-leisure-activity-finds-no-assumption-of-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=139060637","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules Bicycling Is a &#8216;Leisure&#8217; Activity, Finds No Assumption of Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing a distinction between &quot;sporting&quot; and &quot;leisure&quot; activities, a Brooklyn-based appellate court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an avid Long Island bicyclist who was injured in an accident precipitated by roadway repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Appellate Division, 2nd Department, in Cotty v. Southhampton, 2007-08536, declined to apply the assumption-of-risk doctrine as a matter of law and ruled unanimously that the negligence action of Karen Cotty could proceed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1202431019419&amp;pos=ataglance\">https:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1202431019419&amp;pos=ataglance<\/a>oldId.2009052911571775<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing a distinction between &quot;sporting&quot; and &quot;leisure&quot; activities, a Brooklyn-based appellate court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an avid Long Island bicyclist who was injured in an accident precipitated by roadway repairs. The Appellate Division, 2nd Department, in Cotty v. Southhampton, 2007-08536, declined to apply the assumption-of-risk doctrine as a matter of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=139060637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Court Rules Bicycling Is a &#8216;Leisure&#8217; Activity, Finds No Assumption of Risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139060637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139060637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139060637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139060637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139060637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139060637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139060637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}