Walton v. Premier Soccer Club

Summary

The Supreme Court of Maryland affirmed summary judgment for the defendants on the Waltons' statutory-negligence claim arising from alleged violations of Maryland's youth-concussion statute. The Court held that proving a statutory violation and showing that the plaintiff belongs to the protected class and suffered the type of harm the statute was intended to prevent does not eliminate the separate requirement of proving causation-in-fact. Because the Waltons supplied no competent summary-judgment evidence connecting the alleged statutory violations to Sydney's collision and injuries, their claim could not proceed.