Court Affirms that Coach Was Protected by Governmental Immunity

The Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to grant summary judgment to a track coach, who was sued after he told the plaintiff to compete in an event she had never competed in, the high jump, and she became injured.   Like the trial judge, the state’s high court concluded that the coach was exercising his judgment as a coach and was entitled to state-agent immunity.   The incident occurred on April 12, 2003. Plaintiff Tamesha Feagins, an eighth-grade student a