Hecimovich

A recent Google search for “youth sports” showed 379.000. 000 results. “Safety in youth sports,” 66,800,000. “Problem parents in youth sports,” 21,600,000. And “problem coaches in youth sports,” 108.000. 000. Subjects of tremendous interest.

Plaintiff Lawrence Hecimovich, by profession an attorney, was in the 2008-2009 school year the volunteer basketball coach of a fourth grade basketball team in the afterschool program in Menlo Park. A discipline problem arose with one of the players on his team, and plaintiff’s attempts to resolve the issue with the boy’s parents only exacerbated the situation, to the point, plaintiff claimed, that the parents were “rallying team parents to remove” him. Plaintiff then involved the volunteer league commissioner, who involved other league officials. This led to an extensive review of the matter—and numerous e-mails—the upshot of which was that plaintiff was told he would not be allowed to coach the following year and a suggestion that, when he return, it be to coach older children. Plaintiff’s response was this lawsuit.

*455 Representing himself, plaintiff filed a complaint against four defendants, the parent-teacher organization and…