A court in California has ruled that the state did not have a sufficient interest in a workers' compensation claim filed by a professional basketball player who had played only one game in California and, therefore, it could not apply California's workers' compensation law to the player's claim or retain jurisdiction over the case.
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After Adrienne Johnson graduated from Ohio State University in 1997, she was drafted by the Cleveland Rockers, a professional basketball team in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and played for them for two years. She next played for the Orlando Miracle, which became the Connecticut Sun in 2003.
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