Tongue Stud (?)

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Tim C
Please direct me to ANY legal brief or finding that says an offical is "legally" responsible for this issue.

Please guys, do not "quote" legal references when you have no freakin clue what you are talking about.

There is no legal precedant in the US that has EVER found an offical legally responsible for any jewelery issue.

To say otherwise is either ego talking, fear or a misunderstanding of what FED, NCAA or NAIR rules are all about.

I cannot picture ever looking in a players mouth.

TEE

Did you ever hear of the National Association of Sports Officials,TEE?

They commissioned a legal brief on "Limited Liability for Sports Officials" and posted it on their website.You can find it at:
http://www.naso.org/rprt.htm
Just click on the file.You will need pdf to read it.

Please note the sentence on p7-- "One area that might result in successful litigation is when a sports official fails to enforce a safety rule such as the rule that prohibits a player from wearing jewelry in basketball".

Would you now care to revisit your statement about "no freaking clue" and assign it to the proper personage?

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Dec 25th, 2002 at 04:33 AM]