Legal Opinion
Terbush v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 21, 2008No. 06-15033PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
This case illustrates the intersection of the National Park Service’s (“NPS”) mandate to open federal park lands for recreational use, the scope of NPS’s obligation to provide for visitor safety, and the risks of mountain climbing. In 1999, Peter Ter-bush was killed by a rockslide in Yosemite National Park (“Yosemite”) while climbing Glacier Point. His family filed claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2671-2680 (the “FTCA”), claiming that it was not a freak accident and that the NPS is responsible for creating unsafe conditions and failing to warn of…
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