What started as a neighbor’s complaint about “vulgar and offensive language” from some late night pickleballers at the Willow Lane Athletic Complex – triggering a $1.6 million tort claim – has ended with the City of Boise telling pickleballers to vamoose from Manitou and Willow Lane parks.
The tort claim from Patrick Dougherty and Kathleen Romito, both of Boise, also alleged that the noise of paddles smacking the pickleballs was a “continuous, random auditory assault.”
Dougherty and Romito insisted on a court injunction to shut down the courts, plus $1.6 million for what they said was mental distress. Instead of providing a defense to a lawsuit the City of Boise agreed to shut down not only the pickleball courts at Willow Lane, but also the pickleball courts at Manitou Park in southeast Boise…