School District Is Protected From Suit in Stadium Mishap

A Texas state appeals court has affirmed that a school district should not be held liable for an accident a spectator suffered when she fell and broke her leg at the district’s stadium during a football game.   The court specifically concluded that the fact that the district was renting the stadium to schools from another school district when the accident occurred does not constitute a proprietary act, which is a necessary threshold for the district to be held liable. Rather, it was an ac