Court Dismisses Claim Brought by Spurned Student-Athlete

A New York state court has dismissed the claim of a plaintiff student-athlete, who claimed that a football coach inflicted emotional distress upon him when he threw him to the ground and that the coach subsequently retaliated against him after his parents complained to the principal. The retaliation, he claimed, occurred when the football coach had the baseball coach cut him from the baseball team.   The incident that spawned the litigation occurred on October 22, 2002 when plaintiff Dustin