Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!mark
From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Jurisprudence and Science
Message-ID: <4107@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 09:56:48 EST
Article-I.D.: elsie.4107
Posted: Mon Dec 24 09:56:48 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 03:06:13 EST
References: <750@sjuvax.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 15

> Hi,
> 
> Just heard the news this evening.  Apparently some court has ruled
> against the U.S. Weather Service; holding them liable for - get this,
> failure to forecast a storm in which 3 boaters lost their lives.
> 
Actually, the court did not hold the USWS liable for failing to predict the
storm, but, rather for failure to maintain equipment (a weather bouy, in
this case) that *could* have aided in predicting the storm.

-- 
Mark J. Miller
NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC
UUCP:	decvax!harpo!seismo!elsie!mark
Phone:	(301) 496-5688