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Motorsports Development Agreement By And Between Mayor And City Council Of Baltimore And Downforce Racng, LLC

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MOTORSPORTS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN
THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE AND
DOWNFORCE RACING, LLC

This Motorsports Development Agreement (“Agreement’’) is entered into as of this day of February, 2012, by and between the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (“City”), a body corporate and politic of the State of Maryland, and Downforce Racing, LLC (“DFR”), a limited liability company duly organized under the laws of Delaware and registered to do business in the State of Maryland (hereafter individually a “Party” and collectively “the Parties”).

WHEREAS, the City desires to promote events that are of interest and benefit to the residents of the City, to expand national and international tourism to the City, and otherwise to enhance economic opportunities for the benefit of the City, its residents and local businesses; and

WHEREAS, the City has determined that the holding of a series of internationally- recognized automobile races approved by one or more authorized automobile sanctioning bodies, together with a variety of sporting, entertainment, it...

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Spectator Injuries: Examining Owner Negligence and the Assumption of Risk Defense

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INTRODUCTION

People attend sporting events for various reasons. A person may attend for the love of the game, because friends or family persuaded the person to go, or to impress that special someone. However, injuries to spectators can affect anyone at or near the game. Spectators who lawfully purchase tickets to attend sporting events are business invitees and are be able to recover damages from stadium owners who “knew or should have known that a condition existed which posed an unreasonable risk to the spectators, the spectators could not have discovered and protected themselves against this risk, and he owners failed to exercise reasonable care for the spectator’s protection.”

The purpose of this article is to: (1) analyze the current duty of care owed by stadium owners to spectators in baseball and hockey; (2) identify when any assumption of risk defenses...

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Rationalizing a Decade of Judicial Responses to Exculpatory Clauses

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Now Pilate, seeing that he was doing no good, but rather a riot was breaking out, took water and washed his hands in sight of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just man; see to it yourselves." And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children."'Pontius Pilate's non mea culpa qualifies as a famous attempt to excuse the effects of behavior, As Fifth Procurator of Judea, Pilate was bound by a duty to punish the guilty and protect the innocent. If he failed to act reasonably in performing either of those acts, he was accountable for the consequences. However, others could bargain to assume responsibility for those consequences, as did the people of Judea in the example reported by Matthew above."

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