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