Aug 27, 2021
By John E. Tyrrell and Vikas Bowry, of Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey On June 10, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Michigan, in a per curiam decision, affirmed summary disposition in favor of Lamphere Schools and middle-school track and field coach, Stephen Murray....
Mar 26, 2021
By Michael A. Ross, MS On February 2, 2021 Tonya Seymour, serving as Administratrix of the Estate of Frederick Seymour, (Plaintiff) brought forth an appeal against the Orange County Board of Education; Eric Jeffries in his individual capacity; Randy Jeffries in his...
Aug 14, 2020
By John E. Tyrrell and Alisha S. Rodriguez, of Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey As the country has gone without collegiate sports for the past few months, many are feeling the loss. Some might say sports are significant to daily life but is it a stretch to...
Nov 9, 2018
A Galveston, Texas couple has sued the Santa Fe Independent School District and several school officials in the Southern District of Texas (case No. 3:18-cv-00287), alleging that they violated the civil rights of their son, leading to the debilitating concussion he...
Nov 9, 2018
A Connecticut state court judge has ruled that the Town of Hamden, owner of a hockey rink where a mom attending her son’s game was injured, is entitled to governmental immunity, thus dismissing the mom’s lawsuit. In so ruling, the court found that the defendant was...
Jul 20, 2018
A Pennsylvania commonwealth court’s decision to allow a student to sue a Philadelphia school district for failing to pad a concrete gym wall was a clear case of “flip-flopping,” an attorney representing the district told the Pennsylvania Supreme...
Jun 22, 2018
A Pennsylvania appeals court has affirmed a lower’s ruling that dismissed the claim of a man who suffered serious injuries after he was beaten up by members of the California University of Pennsylvania football team in a 2014 incident. Plaintiff Lewis Campbell...
Jul 21, 2017
A North Carolina state appeals court has affirmed a trial court’s ruling that a school board was entitled to statutory immunity in a case in which a basketball referee injured himself, allegedly because of a defective playing surface, and sued a school board. ...
Jul 21, 2017
By Jim Moss, Esq. In St. Vrain Valley Sch. Dist. RE-1J v. A.R.L., 2014 CO 33; 325 P.3d 1014; 2014 Colo. LEXIS 362, the plaintiff was playing on a piece of school equipment called a zip line when she fell and fractured her wrist. The court described the...
Mar 3, 2017
A Massachusetts appeals court has affirmed the ruling of a trial court that a municipality in that state is protected by sovereign immunity in a case in which it was sued by a resident and his spouse who lived adjacent to a baseball diamond and claimed its use was a...
Sep 30, 2016
In a unanimous decision, a panel of judges at a Washington state appeals court affirmed a ruling dismissing a lawsuit filed by a teenager, who suffered an injury in a pickup basketball game and subsequently sued the school district, which owns the facility. In so...
Dec 25, 2015
An Oklahoma state appeals court has reversed the finding of a trial judge, who granted a school district’s motion for summary judgement on governmental immunity grounds after the district was sued by the parent of a student, who was injured while practicing a stunt...
