Soccer Mom Fails to Show School Had Surrendered Immunity Doctrine

A Connecticut state court has granted summary judgment to a municipality, which was sued when a soccer player injured himself by stepping in a hole on the field, ruling that it is shielded by governmental immunity from a lawsuit filed by the plaintiff’s parent.   On August 23, 2005, Mark Sanford, the minor son of Roseanne Sanford, was participating in a soccer practice on a field at Central Middle School in Greenwich. The practice was being conducted by a private soccer team that had secu