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In August 2019, a Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA) group made a post on Facebook promoting a #DontSueSummer campaign, urging readers to help us stand up to the frivolous lawsuits getting in the way of everyone’s summer fun. The post offered the case example of two women in South Carolina [who] tried to avoid the lines and broke into a water park for a private ride while the park was closed and then decided to take the slide operator to court when they got hurt: The gist of the claim was true: Two women from New York who were visiting Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 2017 entered the closed Pavilion Park amusement park area during early-morning hours, moved an unsecured gate at the entrance to the Pipeline Slide dry slide, climbed the stairs to the top of the attraction, slid down the dry slide, then suffered broken bones when they collided with a metal barrier at the bottom of the slide. In November 2018, the two women filed a lawsuit against the park's operators and the ride's manufacturers, asserting that the closed attraction was improperly secured with nothing more than a plastic gate: The extent to which this lawsuit might be considered frivolous is subjective, but it hardly represented an abusive waste of court resources or the ruin of anyone's summer fun. After the lawsuit drew hundreds of social media comments condemning it within days of its filing, the women dropped it before it was even served on the putative defendants: We note that a Center for Justice & Democracy fact sheet cautions that Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse groups are often fronts for major corporations and industries seeking to escape liability for the harm they cause consumers:
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