Family Can’t Sue Air Force For Soccer Goal Breaking Son’s Skull

Parents of a three-year-old can’t sue the US for allegedly failing to secure a soccer goal that fell on the boy at Little Rock Air Force Base, because the Federal Tort Claims Act doesn’t allow their lawsuit, the Eighth Circuit said Thursday.

Major Andrew Hutchinson and his family lived in military housing on the base. During a soccer game on Warfit Field, a nearby athletic facility, the unanchored soccer goal was tipped over by a playing child, fracturing the skull of the major’s son and requiring hospitalization and multiple surgeries.

Hutchinson and his wife Jessica sued the government for negligence ...