High School Softball Player’s Failure to Plead Foreseeability of Injury Dooms Appeal

The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that dismissed the claim of a high school softball pitcher, who sued her former coach and the school district, after she was struck by a ball that was batted by her coach during a practice.   By way of background, plaintiff Paige E. Lesher was a high school pitcher on the girls' varsity softball team at the Hamburg Area High School. On April 24, 2016, while at softball practice at the high school, Lesher was warmi