Rams named lone defendant in Reggie Bush injury trial

The Los Angeles Rams were ruled by a St. Louis judge on Friday to be the only defendant in the civil trial over former running back Reggie Bush's knee injury suffered at the Edward Jones Dome in 2015, according to Joel Currier of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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The judge dismissed both the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission upon their argument that state law says public entities can be liable only if they have exclusive control of the facility.

"There was no evidence that showed the RSA or the CVC had exclusive control of the premises," said Debbie Champion, lawyer for the RSA and the CVC. "Even the evidence the Rams put on, was that there was joint control of the dome on game days by the CVC and the Rams. Well, the law requires that there be exclusive control of the city in order to make a claim."

Bush suffered a season-ending knee injury in a game against the Rams on Nov. 1, 2015, while a member of the San Francisco 49ers. He slipped on what the lawsuit calls a "concrete ring of death" while being pushed out of bounds.

The Rams moved to Los Angeles the season after his injury.

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