Court Provides Relief to High School Athlete in Case Involving Knee Injury
A federal judge from the Western District of Oklahoma has given new life to a lawsuit brought by the mother of a high school athlete, who claimed his coaches, the defendants, put him in a football game before his knee had healed, causing him to re-injure his knee.
By way of background, the high school athlete (D.W.) sustained an injury to his right knee while playing for the Shawnee High School football team in 2020. The injury required surgery and months of physical therapy. On September 13,