[TopQuark]

i completely agree with everything you said, an in particular:

It would be hard to prove that a swimming pool is a way to transmit HIV.

The point is not whether it is possible or easy to prove --- if someone merely tries to do that, it ruins you financially. And many lawyers will do just that. In our litigious society, you do not need to lose the case in order to incur a considerable loss.

[Alter Kaker]

The point is not whether it is possible or easy to prove --- if someone merely tries to do that, it ruins you financially. And many lawyers will do just that. In our litigious society, you do not need to lose the case in order to incur a considerable loss.

Except now the family of the two year old will have standing to sue the pool for discrimination in violation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and clean up. That seems a little more real than your hypothetical lawsuit from somebody offended to be in the same county as an HIV+ person.

[SoftballMominVA]

if someone merely tries to do that, it ruins you financially. And many lawyers will do just that. In our litigious society, you do not need to lose the case in order to incur a considerable loss.

Ain't that the truth! Even a pair of paints can ballon into a double digit lawsuit! But in this case, if the parents of the child sue, the park operator is stuck either way.