California Court of Appeal

Summary judgment for defendants in a personal injury action, involving a school snowboarding team accident, pursuant to a finding that primary assumption of the risk bars defendants' liability to plaintiff and that punitive damages are not recoverable against a particular defendant, is reversed where there are triable issues of fact on the question whether snowboarder-defendant's conduct was reckless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2006
• Published 01/24/2006

Judges

• BLEASE, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sands & Associates, Leonard S. Sands, Heleni E. Suydam, Beverly Hills, Tracy Neal-Lopez, Costa, Abrams & Coate, Charles M. Coate, Santa Monica, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martin S. McHugh, Chico;  Halkides, Morgan & Kelley, John P. Kelley;  Tucker Ellis & West, Peter J. Koenig, Brian T. Clark, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.