Legal Opinion
Yancey v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 20, 1994No. F021454PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
THAXTER, J.
Petitioner Patricia A. Yancey was struck on the head by a discus thrown by a classmate during a community college physical education class. This case raises an issue left unaddressed in Knight v. Jewett (1992) 3 Cal.4th 296 [11 Cal.Rptr.2d 2, 834 P.2d 696]: whether the limited duty of care applicable to coparticipants in such sports as football, baseball, and skating should be applied to coparticipants in a discus class.
Facts
According to the allegations in Yancey’s complaint, she and Sunny Neal (defendant below) were participating in a physical education discus class at…
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