Basketball Player’s Claim Survives Summary Judgment

A state court judge in Connecticut has kept alive the claim of a plaintiff, who injured himself when he slipped and fell in a gym, by denying a pair of motions for summary judgment brought by the defendants in the case. The court’s rationale for the decision was “based upon the nature of the allegations in the complaint and the material issues of facts disputed by the parties to this action.”   The incident that led to the litigation occurred on April 21, 2005, when plaintiff David Wi