Legal Opinion
Cimino v. Yale University
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided June 30, 1986No. Civ. N-84-666 (PCD)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON PENDING MOTIONS
DORSEY, District Judge.
Background
Plaintiffs are suing for injuries sustained by Ms. Cimino while a spectator at the Harvard-Yale football game at the Yale Bowl on November 19, 1983. Ms. Cimino was seriously injured when she was struck by a goalpost which was being pulled down at the conclusion of the game.
The first count charges that Yale University and the City of New Haven (and the sixty New Haven police officers who worked at the game) were negligent in failing to provide adequate crowd control and security and for agreeing in advance not to try to prevent the…
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