Legal Opinion
JUVENALIS v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 28, 2008No. 05-CV-650PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge:
Appellant Joseph Juvenalis appeals a judgment on the verdict denying his recovery for injuries he sustained as a pedestrian in an automobile accident involving a Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) van. The jury found that he assumed the risk of the accident despite determining that the MPD officer driving the van was negligent. The issue before us on appeal is whether the jury should have been given the assumption of risk jury instruction. We conclude that it was reversible error to give the jury the assumption of risk jury instruction. By basing its…
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