Pearce v. Utah Athletic Foundation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “recreational activities do not constitute a public interest and that, therefore, preinjury releases for recreational activities cannot be invalidated under the public interest exception”
• stating that \people may contract away their rights to recover in tort for damages caused by the ordinary negligence of others\
• stating that “people may contract away their rights to recover in tort for damages caused by the ordinary negligence of others”
• adopting the Tunkl factors to determine whether the public interest prong of Utah's two-part test has been met
• Gross negligence is \the failure to observe even slight care; it is carelessness or recklessness to a degree that shows utter indifference to the consequences that may result.\
• Gross negligence is “the failure to observe even slight care; it is carelessness or recklessness to a degree that shows utter indifference to the consequences that may result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).