Legal Fight Emerges in the World of Kickball

There was no love in the air on Valentine’s Day 2006 when the World Adult Kickball Association filed a lawsuit against upstart DC Kickball in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., claiming “copyright infringement.” The litigation, which recently entered the discovery phase, alleges that founder and WAKA-defector Carter Rabasa stole WAKA’s rules of play as well as defamed the organization when he referred to them as “the Microsoft of kickball.”The complaint accuses Rabasa of copyri