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In Huang v. The Bicycle Casino, an appeals court in California was tasked with weighing the issue of liability of a common carrier.

For example, if you are injured while riding in friend’s car, and that friend was at-fault in the accident, your friend would be held to the ordinary standard of care as in any other negligence case. The reason for this is because your friend is not a common carrier of passengers. However, if you are riding with a driver working for a bus company and you were injured as a passenger – even as a guest of a free shuttle – the driver (and vicariously, the company) would be held to a higher standard of care.

In Huang, plaintiff was injured when she was getting on board a shuttle bus provided by defendant’s casino. When plaintiff sued, defendant casino claimed it should not be held to a higher standard of care because as a casino, it was not a common carrier of passengers. Defendant that the free shuttle was provided as a courtesy for customers, but it were not engaged in the business of carrying passengers from one location to the other.

The trial court agreed with this argument and granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment, finding that, since defendant did not owe a duty of care to plaintiff in this case, it were not liable for any damages and dismissed the case. Plaintiff’s appeal focused on whether casino owner was in fact a common carrier.

It should be noted that is not necessary for the court of appeals to find that defendant was a common carrier as a matter of law. If there is a genuine dispute as to a material fact, the court will remand the case so that a jury can make such a determination.

One appeal, the court first looked at the issue of whether defendant casino was a common carrier or a private carrier and found that this was a triable issue for the jury to decide. The court also found that, even if the defendant was a private carrier, as determined by the jury, this would not mean the company isn’t liable under the traditional duty of care in ordinary negligence cases involving private carriers.

As our Boston personal injury lawyers can discuss, this issue was addressed in Massachusetts in 1958 in a case titled Quigley v. Wilson Line of Massachusetts. In Quigley, plaintiff was a passenger aboard a ferryboat owned by defendant and was injured when a drunken passenger attacked him. This drunken passenger was kicked out of a bar on the ship by police officers employed by the ship owner, and he was not watched or kept under surveillance.

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The court reasoned that the ship owner was in the regular business of carrying passengers and chose to sell alcohol on its ships. They had the heightened responsibility as a common carrier to make passengers safe from this foreseeable and preventable accident and were therefore liable.

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Additional Resource

Huang v. The Bicycle Casino, October 20, 2016, California Court of Appeal

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Wilkins v. City of Haverhill – Massachusetts Supreme Court Weighs Slip-and-Fall Claim, May 23, 2014, Boston Personal Injury Attorney Blog

Despite my less than spectacular performance earlier this week at the Bike NL tournament I wanted to give it another shot. I entered Friday night’s $25 +$5 NL Hold ‘Em tournament. I was a little surprised to see so many people. Final tally would be just shy of 200 players. I came nowhere near placing in the money so I will spare readers the tale of my dramatic battle but I almost made it to the second break which is two hours in so I wasn’t doing too poorly either. In fact, I did no rebuys before the first break and only did the double add-on at the break.

What I did want to share was a wild, wild evening. First off, I walk in and I see Chris Karagulleyan sitting a few tables away. I knew who he was because I had watched him take first place in the WPT Legends of Poker tournament last year. Uh, I’m not liking my chances at this point 🙂 Actually, I would have loved to have been seated at his table. . . especially condidering the company at my table.

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There were two main players who deserve special attention; Angry Asian Guy (AAG) and Older Woman (OW). AAG was a good player but he had no patience for the dealers or even other players. He was grabbing chips out of split pots before people could even count the stacks and the dealer would say “Whoa!” and then AAG would start screaming about how he was correct and . . . he was. But the zen like moment of the evening was when AAG’s female friend came over while he was playing. The lady started making comments in another language while standing to the rear of the players. After the fourth or so comment the dealer politely said “Please, English only at the tables.” AAG goes ballistic. He starts yelling that he hadn’t said a word. Of course, the dealer and several players had to point out that AAG’s female friend is standing behind other players and then making comments to him in a foreign language. He is yelling and screaming about how he was made to feel embarrassed by the dealer’s comments and so the dealer calls over a floorman. “English only!” says the floorman and that ends that.

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Older Woman (OW) was, well . . . just not that good. I’m not even sure how describe her. It was obvious that she was playing out of her league. She seemed to play like it was her first game but instead of admitting it, it seemed like she was trying to come off as a more experienced player. She couldn’t follow the game very well, constantly asking how much to her and seeming confused by routine action. She soon became the target of quite a bit of frustration and jokes due to her sometimes headscratching play.

Here’s one of her more famous moments:

Check to her, she raises up to $100, everyone folds except one guy who goes all in with his monster stack of $110 and she folds. Yes, you read that correctly. She folded to a $10 re-raise. The dealer even sat there staring at her and waited quite a long time before mucking her hand just in case she came to her senses. Finally someone broke the silence and said, “Hey, why did you fold to a $10 re-raise?” She answers back “$10? Oh, I thought he raised more.” People were telling that one to their buddies at the break.

Now put AAG and OW at the same table and the fireworks start to fly! AAG is constantly getting into it with her because she’s not quick enough to keep up with the game. She starts to become defensive which only pours more fuel on the fire and pretty soon other players jump in and start yelling at her too. At one point during a heated exchange between her and three or four other players this younger kid at the table says “I’m at a table full of angry old people.” There was a long pause and then the entire table burst out laughing.

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But the action didn’t stop there. During the break two players from another table almost threw fists. I’m not sure what the argument was about but there were a lot of accusations of homosexuality.

All in all, I think I played well but I just couldn’t grab any sort of lead and eventually fell victim to the gradual drip of my stack into the blind and ante pool. I will have to say that I did learn a lot about my NL play though. I learned that I suck. Actually, I learned that I need to do some more study. I play it too much like limit poker. Time to hit some $5 SnG NL games online and get some practice in.

Also, just a note about the $25 +$5 game at the Bike: Earlier in the week I played the $20 +$5 and everything doubled in the $25 game except the chips. Rebuys were $10 for $400 in the $20 game and it was $20 for $400 in the $25 game. You can do a single rebuy anytime you have less than $600 and if you have less than $200 you can do a double rebuy. Since they only give you $200 everyone can rebuy the second the tournament starts which leads to a mass call of rebuys before the first hand is even dealt. The guys in the blinds wait for the first hand and then do double rebuys. So, really, even though it’s a $20 or $25 game, you really can’t compete without rebuying. I’m not a huge fan of this structure and I probably won’t be playing the $25 tournaments as they seem like a rip-off compared to the $20.