He’s Safe! Jury Finds High School Baseball Coach Not Liable In Bang-Bang Play

By Jon Hughes and Kacie Kergides, of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP   On April 4, 2012, something that has happened thousands of times before—and thousands of times since—left one student-athlete catastrophically injured: a high school baseball coach instructed one of his players to slide into third base.   Sliding into the Facts   In April 2012, Jake Mesar was a fifteen-year-old freshman on the junior varsity baseball team at Bound Brook High School in Bound Brook,