First baseman Adam Sasser of the North Greenville Crusaders on March 12, 2019, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. (Photo: Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images via AP)
A complaint by a onetime University of Georgia baseball star who sued after being thrown off the team and suspended from classes for a shouting racial slur during a football game was itself thrown out by a federal judge, who ruled that defendants including UGA’s president, Athletic Association and other university officials were protected by qualified immunity, among other factors.
Adam Sasser, a senior who played first base and left field for the Bulldogs, was attending the Georgia-Tennessee game in October 2018 when, according to court filings and other sources, he began shouting for the starting quarterback to be replaced, yelling “put the (expletive) in!”
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
