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NY Court Checks Amateur Hockey Player's Suit against Ice
Rink Operator
In a matchup unlikely to garner overzealous shouting from the
infamous Hanson brothers, an ice rink operator and a
referee recently took on an amateur hockey player who was allegedly
injured when said referee intervened in a fight during a
championship winter league game. In a final judgment that invoked
every law student's favorite tort doctrine of assumption of the
risk, and that provided defendants with an early holiday gift, a
New York state appellate court ruled that the Plaintiff, an
experienced hockey player,
