Court Finds School District Could Not Have Foreseen Athlete’s Attack on Another Student

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that a lower court did not abuse its discretion when it concluded that a school district was not liable for the actions of a student-athlete, who attacked another student, because the actions of the attacker were not foreseeable.   The incident occurred on January 13, 2004 in a varsity basketball game between Iowa Mennonite High School and Winfield-Mt. Union High School. In the second half of the game, Andrew McSorley, a guard for WMU, struck Jeremy Brokaw,