Word: cimino
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Lawyers for Margaret M. Cimino '87, who suffered permanent neurological damage after a falling goal post struck her in the head following the 1983 Harvard-Yale football game, have filed a %50 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Connecticut...
...suit, filed late in December, charges that Yale University, the City of New Haven, the City of West Haven (which supplied some security for the game) and Ogden Security, Inc. "definitely did not take appropriate and diligent care under the circumstances" to prevent the accident, Cimino's lawyer, Kenneth J. Finger, said Yesterday...
...Cimino's parents declined to comment on the suit...
...Cimino family indicated last March that they planned to use the City of New Haven. At that time, Yale Athletic Director Frank B. Ryan told The Crimson that it may be difficult for Cimino to make a strong case against Yale because "a mob of people brought this about. You could have had an army of policemen out there and still not have stopped them...
...wooden goalposts for games where field-storming is expected. But when wood is torn down, it breaks into flying, jagged pieces, causing eye injuries to bystanders, Reardon said. Being struck by a wooden goalpost, Reardon said, would also probably cause as much damage as the aluminum post which left Cimino partially paralyzed on her right side...