Mom’s Baseless Charges Against Baseball Coaches Spawns Defamation Suit

A Tennessee state court judge has permitted a $6 million defamation suit against the mother of a high school baseball player to move forward, finding she wasn't protected from litigation when she publicly accused her son's coaches of child abuse.   In so ruling, the judge noted that a plaintiff takes a significant risk when going outside the appropriate channels in making such allegations if the charges are ultimately found to be untrue.   As reported in Sports Litigation Alert earlier