Messina v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that expert testimony was necessary to establish the standard of care for installation of cushioning under the monkey bars on a playground
• “We conclude that [the expert’s] testimony ... failed to establish any national standard of care; therefore [plaintiff] did not present a prima facie case of negligence.”
• same where expert presented “no evidence of the extent to which municipalities or other school systems actually complied, or even attempted to comply, with the [proffered] guidelines”
• cushioning for the ground underneath playground monkey bars

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).