# Zivich v. Mentor Soccer Club, Inc.

> Ohio Supreme Court · June 29, 1998 · 82 Ohio St. 3d 367

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6777445

## Case

- **Full name:** Zivich v. Mentor Soccer Club, Inc.
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 29, 1998
- **Citations:** 82 Ohio St. 3d 367; 696 N.E.2d 201
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cook
- **Judges:** Cook, Douglas, Moyer, Only, Pfeifer, Resnick, Stratton, Sweeney
- **Cited by:** 1,118 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that parent may bind minor child to provision releasing volunteers and sponsors of non-profit sports activity from liability for negligence
- holding that “parents have the authority to bind their minor children to exculpatory agreements in favor of volunteers and sponsors of nonprofit sport activities where the cause of action sounds in negligence” and that such agreements “may not be disaffirmed by the child on wh…
- holding that it was not appropriate to equate a pre-injury release with a post-injury release and that parents have the authority to bind their minor children to exculpatory agreements in favor of volunteers and sponsors of nonprofit sport activites where the cause of action s…
- concluding that a parent may bind a minor child to a release of volunteers and sponsors of a nonprofit sports activity from liability for negligence because the threat of liability would strongly deter “many individuals from volunteering for nonprofit organizations”
- holding that public policy supporting limiting liability of volunteer coaches and landowners who open their land to the public "justif[ied] giving parents authority to enter into [pre-injury liability waivers] on behalf of their minor children[ ]"

## Opinion text

Cook, J.,
concurring. I join in the well-reasoned majority opinion. I write separately only to point out that today’s decision is firmly grounded in the public policy of the General Assembly, as evinced by the legislative enactments cited by the majority.

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