Lax lawsuit - visiting parent hit by ball

[billhoward]

Which parking lot was this? Other than the little lot by the entrance to the garage, seems really difficult to get hit with a ball.

Agreed with the above sentiment that this is likely a shameless money grab. Worst part is it'll probably work.

There is a small parking area inside the gates near the lax locker room, room for maybe a half dozen cars, one might call it a parking lot. A lax ball thrown as a shot not pass would have reasonable velocity. It could skip off the turf, possibly break  a nose, facial bone, maybe knock out teeth. The plaintiff's description puts the alleged injury in the worst light. The plaintiff's lawyer also uses "sustain" when it should be "suffer." I'd toss the case for bad grammar.

[Beeeej]

Question: If instead of being by Schoellkopf, where the team practices, the Abrams were near the dorms where a few students were tossing a lacrosse ball around, would the case be any different? How? Why?

Comment: If Cornell would get off its ass and build an indoor athletic facility for field sports, this would not have happened. How many balls from inside the Carrier Dome hit parents standing in the parking lot outside?

Question 2: If Cornell had signs up around the parking lot warning people to beware of lacrosse balls, would this affect liability?

Congratulations, you're a law professor.

[ugarte]

going to be a lot cheaper to settle this case than to build a goddamn indoor practice facility

[billhoward]

Jeff Teat should be severed immediately from the suit. He hasn't been open since freshman year.

[billhoward]

going to be a lot cheaper to settle this case than to build a goddamn indoor practice facility

Mexico's going to pay for it.

[upprdeck]

it would also seem that to get into that lot you have to walk directly towards the field and thus likely notice the 50 guys running around with sticks and balls.

if you are walking around a quad and get hit with a random frisbie is Cornell libel for that too?

Having sat in the Upson lot enough to see baseballs carry the fence and bounce off Rhodes and Upson I would think there is a random chance someone walking down those sidewalks might get hit as well some day is this any different than that?

But then i watched a girl walk behind a Semi trying to back into the Upson lot yesterday and almost get run over, she never even noticed the big truck miss her by a ft or 2 and he never saw her as he was trying to jack knife a way too big truck into  a poorly designed lot.  Wonder what that liability that would have been Cornell/truck/parking planner/architect?

[marty]

Question: If instead of being by Schoellkopf, where the team practices, the Abrams were near the dorms where a few students were tossing a lacrosse ball around, would the case be any different? How? Why?

Comment: If Cornell would get off its ass and build an indoor athletic facility for field sports, this would not have happened. How many balls from inside the Carrier Dome hit parents standing in the parking lot outside?

Question 2: If Cornell had signs up around the parking lot warning people to beware of lacrosse balls, would this affect liability?

Congratulations, you're a law professor.

And if you attempt to answer them you're an ersatz L1.

[mike1960]

Anyone know how this was resolved, if it was? I can't find anything on the internets.

[David Harding]

Anyone know how this was resolved, if it was? I can't find anything on the internets.

You must be kidding!  The suit was only filed three months ago.
If you want follow along at home, the case is  EF2019-0706 - Tompkins County Supreme Court
You can look it up at https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/CaseSearch where the complaint and Cornell's response are filed.

[mike1960]

Anyone know how this was resolved, if it was? I can't find anything on the internets.

You must be kidding!  The suit was only filed three months ago.
If you want follow along at home, the case is  EF2019-0706 - Tompkins County Supreme Court
You can look it up at https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/CaseSearch where the complaint and Cornell's response are filed.

Thanks, David!