And it’s the fault of Yankees management and a stadium security firm, as well as the two men who actually knocked him around, says Charles Hillios of Chicopee, Mass., of the Aug. 29, 2007 incident at Yankee Stadium. (“Red Sox fan from Chicopee takes legal swing at New York Yankees”, Springfield, Mass. Republican, Aug. 6 via TortsProf weekly roundup).
P.S. In comments, Curt Cutting calls our attention to a lawsuit arising from another fracas between fans of the two teams, this one in Carlsbad, Calif. In that one a jury awarded $25,000 to the Yankees fan “for injuring his hand when he punched” the Red Sox fan.
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It seems that the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is generating a fair amount of litigation these days:
http://calpunitives.blogspot.com/2008/05/yankees-fan-wins-punitive-damages.html