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Lawsuit dismissed in case of Alberta boy injured in toy dinosaur ‘swatting match’

An Alberta judge has dismissed a lawsuit involving one child suing another after a disagreement over a toy dinosaur led to a finger injury.

In a decision released earlier this month, Justice Brian Hougestol said the lawsuit involving the boys in Grande Prairie, Alta., was “quite rare” and raised “numerous legal issues related to capacity.”

The boys were enrolled in a summer daycare program operated by a non-governmental organization in 2022, when they got into a fight over the toy the judge described as being “the size of a 500-ml bottle of water.”

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