[JRutledge]

Originally posted by drinkeii
As for the comment about no one ever getting sued for letting a game get out of hand, i'm sure that no one has, for simply having that happen. I was referring to, in the original post, where someone gets hurt because of that. People have gotten sued for that. And when a tape of the game is produced by some parent who was videotaping, showing an official chatting with people on the sideline, or walking facing away from the court for more than an extremely short period of time here and there when repositioning, or ignoring obvious contact that could be considered to be dangerous beyond normal play, I would say that it is very likely that the official is going to be held liable. Remember - we live in a society where spilling hot coffee on yourself allows you to get money from the store you bought the hot coffee from, because it was hot.

That sound all great, but people think we do not know what we are doing even when we know exactly what we are doing. Players get hurt regardless of what we call. So I think Tony's point was that you can worry all day about these things and bad things will still happen.

Peace