NY Court Checks Amateur Hockey Player’s Suit against Ice Rink Operator

By Robert E. Freeman, Jonathan Mollod and Theresa Smith, of Proskauer   In a matchup unlikely to garner overzealous shouting from the infamous Hanson brothers, an ice rink operator and a referee recently took on an amateur hockey player who was allegedly injured when said referee intervened in a fight during a championship winter league game. In a final judgment that invoked every law student's favorite tort doctrine of assumption of the risk, and that provided defendants with an early holi