Kirk v. Washington State University

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court did not err in allowing jury to consider loss of enjoyment of life when injury to plaintiff's elbow was permanent and she could not become a professional dancer
• noting that a rigorous application of implied primary assumption of risk could undermine the purpose of comparative negligence
• affirming $353,791 damages award for pain and suffering to twenty-year- old cheerleader who sustained permanent elbow injury during unsupervised cheerleading practice
• concluding evidence of prior abortions was prejudicial
• concluding evidence of prior abortions was prejudicial
• Implied unreasonable assumption of risk is widely recognized as a form of contributory negligence, and is therefore, subsumed under contributory negligence

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