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Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Idaho Supreme Court decided not to impose the “Baseball Rule” of liability in the lawsuit brought by Bud Rountree, instead choosing to let a jury decide if watching baseball is an inherently dangerous activity done at the spectator’s own risk.
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Rountree was injured while attending a Boise Hawks game with his wife and grandkids on Aug. 13, 2008. Rountree left his seat in the mesh-netting protected section of the stadium and was talking to someone in an area not protected by netting when he heard the crowd begin to roar. That’s when Rountree turned toward the field and was struck in the face with a foul ball, according to the ruling, and the resulting injury caused him to lose an eye.
If a jury finds the team liable for injuries to inattentive fans, who gets the shaft?
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1. villageidiom Posted: March 01, 2013 at 07:22 AM (#4378167)So legal beagles -- does the existence of netting for part of the park show that (a) teams recognize they have some responsibility to protect the fans (i.e. liability) and (b) they can't argue this sort of injury was unforeseeable?
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