Kasten v. YMCA

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• holding that plaintiff, not a Y.M.C.A. member, was not a beneficiary because she paid to use for-profit ski-facilities run by the charity
• recognizing that where the nature of charitable association's activities is primarily commercial in character, such as operating a ski area for profit, the association may lose its customary immunity from liability
• denying immunity to a non-profit organization whose purpose was to advance the general health of the people who engage in the activities it supports, when the fee-paying nonmember plaintiff was injured while skiing on a ski slope operated by the organization

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