Appeals Court Leaves Judge’s Ruling Intact, Despite Discrepancies

A Louisiana state appeals court has affirmed the ruling of a trial court that a school board and two of its football coaches failed to provide proper supervision and actually enhanced the risk of injury when they moved a football practice indoors after it started raining.   Central to the appeals court’s ruling was its conclusion that “because the (lower court’s) findings of fact are based on a reasonable view of the evidence, they are not manifestly erroneous, and we may not set them