Dawn Rannals v. Diamond Jo Casino

I respectfully dissent from the court’s opinion in this case, because the DOT training program was not, in any relevant sense, Diamond Jo’s agent in providing the facilities and parking lot in which Ms. Ran-nals’s accident occurred. The court acknowledges that Diamond Jo was not directly negligent, in any way, in choosing the United States DOT training program, or in subsidizing Rannals’s attendance. Under the law that applied to it, the law of Ohio, DOT also was not negligent in providing the parking lot and in not preventing the natural accumulation of snow and ice. Thus, all of the…