Appeals Court Affirms that Immunity Statute Shielded School District from Track Accident

Washington state court of appeals has affirmed a grant of summary judgment to a school district, which was sued by a citizen who suffered an injury after she fell on the bleachers on her way to use the districts’ running track.   Critical to the panel’s finding was its conclusion that the district has immunity under the state’s recreational use immunity statute.   Plaintiff Elizabeth Olson suffered the injury at Foster High School, a public high school in the Tukwila School Distr