Massachusetts High Court Affirms Ruling for Soccer Association

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a soccer association, which was sued after a freak injury on the field, was shielded from the negligence lawsuit by a state law that confers immunity on such associations.   The incident that led to the litigation occurred on April 10, 1998, when Dustin Welch, then 12, was participating in a soccer practice on Haskell Field in the town of Sudbury. At either end of the field were metal goal posts and nets