Court Dismisses Concussion Lawsuit Against Coach as Her Inexperience Works in Her Favor

A federal judge from the Middle District of Pennsylvania has granted a cheerleading coach’s motion for summary judgment in a case in which she was sued by a cheerleader, who suffered multiple concussions under her watch.   In so ruling, the court determined that because the coach could not have foreseen the injury, the coach’s actions did not cross the necessary threshold, or exhibit “a degree of culpability that shock the conscience.”   Describing the factual scenario as “tr