A case pending at the state Court of Appeals may be the first to address a key question over the reach of the state’s anti-hazing law.
That law makes it illegal to subject a student to a dangerous activity as a precondition of gaining acceptance in a school organization. Jerome Pelham has filed a lawsuit under that law, alleging he was severely injured when his football coach at Georgia Southern University directed players to fight one another as a means of determining who would stay on the team.
