Six Flags may avoid liability for the fatal accident that sent a teacher plunging from a Georgia roller coaster—if the amusement park can demonstrate that it complied with applicable state safety laws.

Hassan Kariem, 42, was ejected Monday from the 200-foot-tall Goliath hypercoaster at Six Flags Over Georgia after apparently slipping out of his restraint. He struck other cars before falling to his death in front of horrified passengers.

“The key question is not just what went wrong, but also whether someone knew—or should have known—what might go wrong,” said Daniel Adamson, an attorney with Georgia-based Dixon-Adamson, a firm that handles theme park litigation.

Six Flags has temporarily closed Goliath and nine other roller coasters at six of its parks while investigators examine the deadly incident. The review is expected to cover every aspect of the ride, including its design, maintenance history and daily operation, Adamson told The Post.

“The biggest issue is whether this was a preventable tragedy,” he said.

Investigators will also want to know whether the park had been alerted to any potential problems, Adamson said, including whether there were previous safety complaints and what the inspection logs and maintenance records show.

If the investigation finds that Six Flags rigorously complied with Georgia’s safety codes and regulations, Adamson said the park could potentially avoid legal liability for Kariem’s death.

That possibility stems from the fact that Georgia applies a lower legal duty of care to amusement parks than it does to public transportation operators.

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Under a 1982 Georgia Supreme Court ruling, amusement parks owe guests a duty of “ordinary care.” By contrast, bus and train operators are required to exercise “extraordinary diligence” toward their passengers.

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That distinction can make it more difficult to hold a roller coaster operator responsible for a passenger’s injury or death.

Still, “ordinary care” generally applies to expected risks such as becoming ill on a ride or having one’s head jostled—not being thrown from a seat while traveling about 70 mph.

“When somebody boards a roller coaster, they accept the thrill of the ride, not the risk of being thrown from it,” Adamson said. He added that Six Flags would have to argue that Kariem knowingly assumed the risk of such an extraordinary accident when he entered the park.

“It’s really context-specific,” he said.

“You have to examine the facts of each case and determine what reasonable duty of ordinary care applies in the context of that particular activity.”

Christa Pike could avoid execution if the two doses of pentobarbital she survived caused lasting cognitive damage, according to one of the country’s leading death-penalty experts.

Deborah Denno, a Fordham Law professor who studies capital punishment, said Pike’s attorney has reported that she remains confused and has little or no clear memory of the botched execution. “If that continues, it could be very difficult for the state to execute her for that reason alone,” Denno told News Media. “You have to understand why you’re being punished and connect that punishment to the crime you committed.”

Denno also noted that executions are prohibited for people with intellectual disabilities.

Courts have blocked executions involving intellectually disabled prisoners and inmates whose cognitive impairments prevent them from understanding why they are facing death, Denno said. She cited a 2019 Supreme Court decision involving a prisoner with dementia who could no longer remember the crime.

Pike had been scheduled for execution Sept. 30, after the Supreme Court lifted a last-minute stay. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at the Jobs Corps Center vocational program in Knoxville.

Pike’s next steps remain uncertain. State officials have not publicly disclosed how they intend to proceed, leaving several possible outcomes on the table.

Gov. Bill Lee could commute Pike’s sentence to life without parole, although he has already placed a moratorium on Tennessee executions through at least the end of the year. Even with that pause in place, Denno said a gubernatorial commutation appears unlikely.

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If Tennessee officials seek a new death warrant, the move would probably trigger another legal challenge, Denno said.

The case could ultimately reach the Tennessee Supreme Court, which may have to decide whether Pike remains imprisoned for life or faces another execution attempt, she said. “If there’s going to be another attempt at an execution, that could go several ways as well.”

Pike’s legal team could also argue that trying to execute her again would violate protections against double jeopardy, Denno said.

The theory is that Pike has already endured the state’s punishment: Officials administered the drugs, she received them and the state completed the steps intended to kill her. “She just simply didn’t happen to die,” Denno said, adding that the failure resulted from the state’s chosen method or its incompetence.

That argument would have to be resolved by the courts. If it fails, officials would then face another difficult question: how should a second execution be carried out?

“Are you going to try to use lethal injection again?” Denno asked. Pike’s attorneys may have their strongest argument yet that repeating the method would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Pike has identified hanging and a firing squad as two possible alternatives, Denno said, meaning the state could pursue one of those methods instead.

Pike has since left the hospital and returned to prison following what her attorneys called a “remarkable” physical recovery. She is the only person known to have survived a lethal injection attempt in the modern era.

Michelle Obama has opened up about the difficult process of confronting her fears before choosing to support Barack Obama’s decision to run for president.

The former first lady, 62, discussed her concerns about Barack, 65, entering the White House during the latest episode of her IMO podcast.

Michelle said she initially doubted whether she could cope with the demands of being first lady. However, after taking time to examine the source of her anxiety, she decided to stand behind her husband.

The conversation began when her co-host and brother, Craig Robinson, read a listener’s question asking her to recall a time when taking a risk felt frightening but ultimately changed the course of her life.

“How did you know it was worth the risk?” the listener asked.

Michelle acknowledged that she has faced plenty of intimidating moments. “A lot of things have come my way where I’ve been like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do that,’” she said.

One of those decisions came in 1991, when she left a well-paid position at Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin to become an assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

“Leaving corporate law and giving up a big salary while I still had a lot of college and law school debt to work for the city and a nonprofit was extremely scary,” she explained. “Doing something that wasn’t lucrative while carrying that kind of debt was frightening.”

Michelle revealed that agreeing to support her husband’s bid for the White House was another moment that left her deeply afraid.

“Over time, I’ve learned to ask myself, ‘What am I actually afraid of?’” she said. “I’ve learned to examine my fear instead of immediately allowing it to take over.”

She added that fear can sometimes serve as an important warning, but people should also consider whether discomfort or a fear of failure is holding them back. “If it’s not life-threatening, you should recognize that and think about what you’re truly capable of handling,” she said.

Michelle noted that many people can manage far more uncertainty and pressure than they initially believe. In her view, fear often prevents people from pursuing opportunities that could lead to meaningful personal growth.

Offering advice to anyone hesitant to take a chance, she said: “First, work out what is making you hesitate and decide whether it’s a genuine fear that needs to be addressed. If it’s not, and it’s simply a thought lingering in the back of your mind, then go for it.”

Michelle has previously said that her greatest concern after Barack was elected president was the impact the intense public attention would have on their daughters, Malia and Sasha.

“The biggest worry I had when Barack was elected wasn’t the difficulty of the job,” she said on the podcast last year.

“It wasn’t the pressure, the hardship, the threats or any of the things you might imagine. I was worried about my girls.”

‘I worried about moving them out of what was the only community and home they had ever known, where my brother was down the street and my mom was picking them up from school.’

Michelle explained at the time that she felt extremely guilty over uprooting her daughters’ lives, who were then aged ten and seven. 

‘I thought, “I’m gonna do the worst thing to these kids, I’m going to pluck them out in the middle of the school year,”‘ she said.

In the end, she said the girls ‘did way better’ than she expected with the transition. 

Michelle’s latest admission comes weeks after she detailed how she kept her ‘nepo baby’ daughters grounded while they were growing up in the White House.

Back in September, she spoke about the importance of saying ‘no’ to children in order to set them up for success later in life. 

She explained that it was especially vital that she told her and former President Barack’s daughters, Malia, now 28, and Sasha, now 25, ‘no’ when they were kids because of the unique situation they were in. 

The conversation started with Michelle encouraging listeners to embrace failure.

She explained: ‘Life is like a big muscle. You’ve got to build it up. Every failure is like a pushup or a rep.

‘The more reps you do the stronger you get at life. You don’t get the strength without the reps.’

She added that everyone has to ‘learn what their own process is for getting through failure,’ which is something she said you ‘figure out the older you get.’

Her brother and co-host, Craig, then suggested that parents let their kids fail when they’re young so that their first major setback in their 20s doesn’t feel like a ‘catastrophe.’

Michelle said that was something she implemented when her daughters were growing up, explaining that she went out of her way to tell them ‘no’ to things because they ‘needed to know what it felt like.’

She added that now, looking back, Malia and Sasha sometimes question why she wouldn’t allow them to do certain things.

‘The girls tell me, “Mom, you used to tell us no.” They’d be like, “Why?” Because you need to know what no feels like,’ she said. ‘Especially for kids like ours… there’s no natural “nos.”‘

Guest 2 Chainz then interjected: ‘Nepo babies, man.’

‘We grew up with a lot of “nos,”‘ Michelle went on. ‘It was, “No we can’t afford that. No you can’t have that.”‘

Rachna Shroff, a University of Arizona cancer researcher who dedicated her career to finding better treatments, has died from the disease at 47.

Shroff, a leading specialist in pancreatic and bile duct cancers, “passed away following a battle with an aggressive cancer,” the American Society of Clinical Oncology announced Tuesday.

Earlier this year, Shroff was diagnosed with terminal adenocarcinoma, a cancer that begins in glandular tissue and the linings of the body’s organs. She was the mother of 13-year-old Sachin and 17-year-old Simran.

Doctors initially suspected lymphoma after examining a swollen lymph node in May. However, the cancer had already spread, NBC News reported.

Shroff served as associate director of clinical investigations at the University of Arizona Cancer Center. She died shortly before she and her husband, Dr. Puneet Shroff, were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary.

In the time remaining to her, she made a point of sharing several important family milestones, including accompanying her daughter on college visits and attending her son’s baseball games.

She also established a Conquer Cancer Young Investigator Award in her name. More than $1.35 million has since been raised to support efforts to find a cure for the disease.

The University of Arizona said creating the award was “one of her final wishes.”

Shroff, who wrote more than 80 publications, described her own cancer battle to NBC News as a “journey.”

“I’ve spent my entire life trying to eradicate cancer, primarily pancreatic cancer but also liver cancers,” she said.

Throughout her illness, she continued to follow a personal motto: “If you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.”

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“Even in the face of her own diagnosis, Dr. Shroff spent her time endeavoring to ‘be the sunshine’ for others,” ASCO said.

Shroff began exploring cancer research in the 1990s. In 1993, she received the Osler Fellowship Award, which gave her the opportunity to gain work experience in the laboratory at the University of Arizona Cancer Center.

She later attended Brown University, the Ivy League institution in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated with a degree in biochemistry in 2000.

In 2004, Shroff earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

From 2010 to 2018, she worked as an associate professor of gastrointestinal medical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Shroff joined the University of Arizona in 2018 and became associate director of clinical research in May 2022.

“At the Cancer Center, she built a high-performing gastrointestinal oncology program and, through her expansion of clinical trials in Southern Arizona, worked to ensure patients could access the latest scientific advances,” the university said. It added that her “most cherished roles were those of [a] wife, mother, and friend.”

She also served on American Society of Clinical Oncology panels focused on gastrointestinal cancers.

Tributes to the pancreatic and bile duct cancer expert have been shared on the Conquer website.

“Her genius is incredible, forever an inspiration,” one mourner said.

“Dr. Shroff was a bright light who had an impact on everyone she encountered. Grateful to have had the opportunity to know her,” another added.

“Dr Shroff and her dedication to help the most vulnerable of patients will not be forgotten. Her life held purpose. I am grateful for the time we worked together,” a third supporter said.