USC Student, 340 Pounds, Recalls Trapeze Lesson Injury

USC Student, 340 Pounds, Recalls Trapeze Lesson Injury

A former USC business student who says she was severely injured performing a trapeze exercise as part of an elective class states in new court papers that she weighed 340 pounds at the time and was trying to perform a backflip. Jill Johnson’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit names as defendants USC, marketing professor Joseph Priester and the Santa Monica Trapeze School LLC. Johnson, who was working toward her MBA at the time of her injuries, …