As I write this, I’m sitting in the United Club at Orlando International Airport (a perk of the constant travel I seem to do) and am refle...

            The amusement season is quickly winding down as daily operation (for seasonal parks) comes to a close and schools go back into ...

             The question of federal oversight of amusement ride safety is one that comes up every summer in the wake of an unfortunate, ...

To state the obvious (and to understate the matter significantly), this has been an extremely bad week in the amusement industry. The wee...

This week, IAAPA’s North American Government Relations Subcomittee will be on Capitol Hill for its annual Advocacy Day (the name is a...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of spending a couple days with a highly talented group of amusement professionals at the iRO...

Forest or Trees? Last week, as I was toiling away on a big case I’m working on, my email inbox blew up with news of an ADA case o...

IAAPA 2014 in Orlando was a huge success!   From talking to my clients and peers that were there, I think all agree that the quality of the ...

Over the last couple of years, I have told you about a very important case in our industry called Castelan v. Universal Studios .   Cas...

SeaWorld’s killer whale trainers are out of the water, at least for performance purposes, seemingly for good.   So says the Court of ...

Yesterday, April 8, 2014, the California State Assembly's Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlilfe held its public hearing on AB2140, ...

In my last piece, I told you about a recent ruling from the District Court for the Central District of California in a case called Cast...

As most of you probably already know, Disney has made some waves recently with the announcement of its new access policy for guests with d...

In Massachusetts, this sign could soon be illegal. On May 16, 1999, a 37 year old man was ejected and injured while riding the Superman ...

In the weeks following the tragic death of Rosy Esparza on the Texas Giant at Six Flags Over Texas, there has been a great deal of debate an...

Its been a bad weekend for the amusement industry.  First, an incident on Friday evening at Cedar Point's Shoot the Rapids ride resulted...

So, did you hear about the new amusement ride safety report published today in the journal Clinical Pediatrics that actually demonstrates ...

My last post was a response to a recent article in Consumers Digest magazine that suggested that waterpark injuries were on a sharp ...

A story was published today in Consumers Digest entitled “Waterparks:   Is Public Safety Going Down the Tubes” that paints an extrem...

A week or so ago, news broke of another ride-related ADA lawsuit alleging that a park’s disabled guest access policy is unlawfully discrimi...