Court Sides with School after Student-Athlete Sues for Negligence

A New Jersey state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment for a school board and one of its high schools after the defendants were sued by a student-athlete, who injured her knee after tripping over a divot in the playing field.   Plaintiff Elissa Rose Maybloom was a sophomore at Jackson Township Memorial High School. On Sept.27, 2004, she was playing in a co-ed flag football game on an outdoor grass field known as field #4. She had never played football befo