Appeals Court: What Coaches Don’t Know About a History of Concussion Cannot Hurt Them

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that high school employees acted appropriately when they allowed a high school football player, who had suffered a head injury in June 2011, to participate in football in fall 2011, leading to a devastating head injury.   In so ruling, the appeals court cited the fact that the player did not inform his coaches of his head injury and, thus, they were not put on notice “of the need to obtain medical clearance for hi