Legal Opinion
Anderson v. Little League Baseball, Inc.
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided July 8, 1992No. CIV 92-1282-PHX-EHCPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EARL H. CARROLL, District Judge.
Background
On July 24, 1991, Defendants Little League Baseball, Inc. and its President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Creighton J. Hale adopted the following policy regarding base coaching:... (coach in wheel chair) may coach from the dugout, but cannot be in the coachers box. Little League must consider the safety of the youth playing the game, and they should not have the added concern of avoiding a collision with a wheel chair during their participation in the game.
Plaintiff, who is confined to a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury, has coached…
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