From an LATimes article:
When I started doing this years ago, I never even thought about liability,” Nevada says. “But Santas have a pretty good chance of getting sued. You got the obvious things: You drop a child on its head. Then there’s Santa saying the wrong thing…. I had a Santa working for me a couple years ago; he had a girl on his knee, and he commented, “You have nice eyes and nice hair.’ She claimed sexual harassment.

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December 25th, 2004 at 10:34 pm
with all these potential sexual harassment suits, there will probably come a point in time when human interaction will be limited to his and hellos. it’s just too damn subjective kasi and it’s just near impossible to gauge another person’s comfort level. maybe we’ve become too sensitive for our own good