30 The Queens Courier • january 23, 2014 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com Advertorial Legally Speaking By: Scott Baron, Attorney at Law BATTER UP Q: I was only 16. During an elective softball class, as a warm-up exercise, I was hitting ground balls to a fielder. A new student named Juliet approached me and asked if she could hit a few. I handed the bat to Juliet and told her, “This is just a practice drill, and don’t take full swings.” However, Juliet immediately threw the ball in the air and took a full swing before I had time to get out of the way. A: The school will argue that you assumed the risk that resulted in your injury: that a participant in an athletic activity is deemed to have assumed those commonly appreciated risks which are inherent in the sport and flow from your participation. Its attorneys will contend that the danger of one person’s swinging a bat into another’s face while warming up for the game is inherent. Despite your tender age, if you were an experienced softball player, then there is a substantial likelihood that you will be found to have taken this risk upon yourself. Your attorney will need to dig deep. Perhaps, in truth, the accident resulted from some unassumed, concealed or increased risk from which your teacher should have been protected you. Perhaps the school knew or should have known what you did not – for example, that Juliet had severe behavioral problems. Even if you can clear the hurdle of assumption of the risk, your attorneys will still need to build a case that the school engaged in negligent supervision. Only a few seconds elapsed between your giving the bat to Juliet and this tragedy. Where an accident occurs in so short a span of time that even the most intense supervision could not have prevented it, the court may hold that lack of supervision cannot be the proximate cause of the accident. On this case more than many, your attorney must work very hard. 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But the oldest pieces of equipment date back to the 1980s, according to Gosine and Youwei Sun, the studio’s chief engineer. The school has even donated three outdated pieces to the Museum of Moving Image, Sun said. The project will make the 3,200-squarefoot studio a handicapped-accessible, state-of-the-art facility, with updated digital technology and a new lighting system, comparable to “just about any TV studio out there,” Gosine said. “This is a teaching facility. We’re making it more functional, more useable,” he Martin A. 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