Appeals Court Affirms Charitable Immunity in Flying Bat Case

A Texas state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s finding dismissing the claim of an assistant coach, who sued the head coach after the head coach, while demonstrating a drill, lost his grip on a bat, striking the assistant coach. Plaintiff Robin Chrismon and defendant Harold J. Brown were both volunteer coaches on a 12-and-under girls softball team, sanctioned by the co-defendant Amateur Softball Association of America. On January 2002, while acting in that capacity, Chrismon was injur