[Hoot Gibson]

If school's take reasonable measures to minimize the risk to students and players, I seriously doubt that there is any serious liability risk from reopening schools and resuming team sports. If there were no legal precedents, then schools would be inundated with suits every fall by parents whose children caught the flu. I have a hard time believing that the courts would not have quashed lawsuits over students contracting diseases long ago.

Any jury that votes for big judgments against public schools should be chased out of town along with the plaintiff, and the ambulance chaser who handled the plaintiff's case. This is yet another example of why this nation desperately needs tort reform. Plaintiffs should not be made wealthy by the courts at the expense of the property owners and other taxpayers that fund public schools.