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· 11/8/1976

Colley v. Harvey Cedars Marina

Citations

  • 422 F. Supp. 953
  • 1976 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12395

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  • noting that a proposal that “would require the community the visitor entered to step up its standards of behavior for his greater safety or lift its financial protection to the level to which he was accustomed . . . would be rejected as unfair”
  • \The law of the forum should be applied even though a foreign state also has an interest in the application of its contrary policy.\
  • “The law of the forum should be applied even though a foreign state also has an interest in the application of its contrary policy.”
  • “By entering the state or nation, the visitor has exposed himself to the risks of the territory and should not expect to subject persons living there to a financial hazard that their law had not created.”

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Judges: Brotman

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