Article: Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Firm Faces Suit in Safari Death of 11-Year-Old Boy.

By Noah Bierman, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 24--The father of an 11-year-old boy who was mauled to death by hyenas won permission Wednesday to sue a Fort Lauderdale safari company that took him to Botswana.

Aside from the unusual and gruesome nature of the boy's death, the appellate ruling is attracting attention in Florida's legal community because it's the first in the state to test how much power divorced parents have in signing away certain legal rights for their children.

The boy and his father are from a Baltimore suburb, but the case is being tried in Broward County because the safari company -- The ...

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