New Jersey’s Charitable Immunity Act May Not Be So Charitable to Former Seton Hall Basketball Star Myles Powell
By Robert J. Romano, JD LLM, sports law professor at St. John’s University
In a lawsuit filed by former Seton Hall basketball player Myles Powell, the 2019-2020 Big East Conference Player of the Year claims that the university’s failure to correctly diagnose and treat his knee injury has led him to incur both physical and financial damage. Seton Hall’s third all-time leading scorer alleges that its head men’s basketball coach, Kevin Willard, and the team’s director of sports medicin