United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant in a personal injury and product liability case involving a football goalpost is affirmed where: 1) engaging in tearing down a goalpost is inherently dangerous, and plaintiffs could not sue the manufacturer for the injuries sustained; and 2) plaintiffs did not show that the goalpost was defectively designed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2006
• Decided 06/20/2006
• Published 06/20/2006

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before CUDAHY, KANNE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W. Scott Montross, John F. Townsend, III (argued), Townsend & Montross, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas R. Schultz (argued), Donald B. Kite, Sr., Schultz & Pogue, Carmel, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.