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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
This part of the email is irrelevant to the discussion. The person catching the inbounds pass did not cause the ball to be out of bounds, because it already was out of bounds.
Aside from that, though, I appreciate you sharing that email with us. I respect Mr. Webb's knowledge a great deal. I'm still not sure I agree with his view of this play, but I appreciate knowing his opinion.
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I too think Peter's correct.
Fed 7-6-1 states:
...The thrower shall release the ball on a pass directly into the court, except as in 7-5-7, within five seconds after the throw-in starts.
The throw-in pass shall touch another player (inbounds or out of bounds) before going out of bounds untouched...
Unless I misinterpret the words I underlined it is not a throw-in violation for the ball to touch a player out of bounds on the throw-in. So the throw-in ends legally and the player OOB violates by being OOB when he touches the ball (what we non-hair splitters call "causes the ball the be OOB").