River Riders, Inc. v. Steptoe

BENJAMIN, Justice: 1

Petitioners, River Riders, Inc. and Matthew Knott, seek a writ of prohibition to vacate three pre-trial orders of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County that (1) excluded from the forthcoming trial the Release and Assumption of Risk Agreements that had been signed by fourteen plaintiffs prior to embarking on a whitewater rafting expedition provided by the Petitioners; (2) ruled that the rafting incident was governed by general maritime law, thus, precluding assumption of the risk as a defense; and (3) consolidated the civil action of the personal representative of the…