A suit by a high school runner injured during a track practice session in the school’s hallways has cleared a key hurdle.
U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Downingtown Area School District’s request to toss the suit brought by parents Robert and Kristi Dommel on behalf of their son, whose skull was fractured as his team practiced inside on a day with bad weather. The plaintiffs claimed that the school district and their son’s track coaches were responsible for his injuries by allowing student athletes to run on intersecting routes in the hallways, increasing the chance that runners would crash into one another.
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