09/25/09 PHD comic: 'Softball! Pt. 6!'

[Greg Bernhardt]

Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com
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[BobG]

Not as bad as New York City's Lawyer's League (http://lawyersleague.com/softball/standingssoftball.html). It's an 18 game season with each team playing every other team twice. The season ends July 26, but official standings can't be updated until court cases stemming from a game are resolved. League champs from 1993 were finally crowned this season as the last appeal was finally resolved by the USSC.

Perhaps a humorous exaggeration, but this league is notorious for league games resulting in lawsuits in one sport or another (they support volleyball, basketball soccer, and softball), even if their average is less than one per season.

Struck Down

A 6 foot, 8 inch, 218-pound former college basketball player--a ringer on a Lawyers Athletic League team--lost his lawsuit alleging negligence against the league. The judge dismissed the suit, filed in Manhattan, finding a release the player signed absolved the league.

The player alleged the opposing team was “talking trash” to him and struck him. “Next thing I knew, I was getting up from the floor,” he testified. The release absolved the league of injuries from “actions, inactions, or negligence” of the league and others. The judge ruled this applied to being punched by an opposing player.

Source: Noeleen G. Walder, “Court Tosses Claim by Basketball Player Punched During Lawyers’ League Game, Nonattorney player for Milberg Weiss has suit dismissed against lawyers league and Food Bank for New York City,” New York Law Journal, October 23, 2008, viaoverlawyered