A new hearing date has been set for the negligence case involving Southwestern Oklahoma State University and three individuals connected with the university.
A summons filed Wednesday requires defendants SWOSU, Jared Jackson, Julian Washington and Chet Pobolish to file a written answer within 20 days or by August 27.
Nate Washington, attorney for plaintiffs Yolanda and Skye Singleton, appeared for a telephone conference Monday with District Judge Jill Weedon to provide proof of service for the summons issued. Nate Washington said he had served the Julian Washington, Chet Pobolish and the university through Dr. Randy Beutler but had not succeeded in location Jared Jackson. However, they have a general location based on social media activity.
Judge Weedon granted the plaintiffs an addition 60 days to file proof of service and set the new hearing date for October 5. The time is yet to be determined. Further deadlines will be set at this hearing.
The lawsuit was filed December 9 against SWOSU following an incident in February 18 where a football player, Skye Singleton, suffered irreparable brain damage, according to the petition filed with the Custer County District Court. Chet Pobolish, Jared Jackson and Julian Washington were football coaches at the time of the incident.
In the petition, SWOSU and the coaches is accused of negligence due to its alleged failure to provide its football coaching staff the proper emergency training and failure to provide an AED to be used by the coaching staff. The coaches are accused of negligence due to their alleged failure to provide CPR to Skye. SWOSU also is accused of negligent hiring, training and retention of the three coaches.