Bring It On: Indiana Court finds that Accidents Are Ordinary in High School Cheerleading

By Grace Wagner & Elizabeth Catalano, of Montgomery McCracken (Editor’s Note: The following appeared in Sports Medicine and the Law, a periodical of Hackney Publications. Subscriptions are complimentary and can be obtained here.) The Court of Appeals of Indiana recently held that a high school could not be liable for negligence for an incident that left a student-cheerleader with a broken jaw and shattered teeth. After William Henry Harrison High School (“Harrison High School”