Nothing Left to Assume: California Court of Appeal sides with El Dorado Union High School District in High School Football Player’s Request for Damages

By Gina McKlveen A California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District recently affirmed an El Dorado County trial court decision that held Union Mine junior varsity football player, Nick Brown, assumed the risk of his traumatic brain injury after he and his father signed a waiver at the beginning of the 2015-2016 athletic season. Every year in the United States nearly 8 million high school students participate in sports at the junior varsity and varsity levels. At the beginning of