Court: Rutgers Not Liable for Fan’s Injury as She Returned to Her Car

A state court judge in New Jersey has held that Rutgers University is not liable for a slip-n-fall incident that occurred after a football game, since the injured fan veered away from the sidewalk leading from the stadium. In sum, it held that state law mandates that courts “exercise restraint in accepting novel causes of action.”   The incident occurred on December 4, 2008, when plaintiff Lora Sherman, her husband, their friend, and their friend's 13-year-old son, attended a Rutgers-Lo