Claim seeks $100 million for child survivor of Connecticut school shooting
 

Our legal system really is fucked. I mean really, the school board was supposed to have foreseen the actions of a mentally defective idiot? And by suing a taxpayer funded educational system you are actually just suing your neighbors.

"A $100 million claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor is the first legal action to come out of the Connecticut school shooting that left 26 children and adults dead two weeks ago.

The unidentified client, referred to as Jill Doe, heard "cursing, screaming, and shooting" over the school intercom when the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, opened fire, according to the claim filed by New Haven-based attorney Irv Pinsky.

"As a consequence, the ... child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined," the claim said."

http://news.yahoo.com/claim-seeks-10...003646074.html


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Bring out the vultures!!!

Sure, I too want compensation for the baseball that left me with a severe concussion that forced me to be on lithium for 2 years also! :)

Though they are fun, my kids will not be doing sports that involve head trama, or kept to a minimum at least. :2 cents:

These opportunistic parents are as bad as those that were setting up fake charities.

Directly sue the CIA, they are not short of cash :2 cents:

What instigates the whole ordeals is lawyers contact the families and let them in on what they can truly get out of this.

The lawyers should be shot

And people think guns are the problem..

karma ...

Makes you lose faith in people :Oh crap

All:
God save your majesty!

Cade:

I thank you, good people?there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.

Dick:
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Cade:
Nay, that I mean to do.

Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71?78

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Absolutely crazy, this should be thrown out of court.

This is one of the reasons our country is going to shit, vultures trying to capitalize on everything they can just to get a quick payout.

These kinds of laws are thinking about what the child has seen or what the child has not seen in front of his/her eyes. This is important. Has the child seen murder / illegal drugs / violence / other crimes… That could be emotional pain. Was the child physically hurt… How smart is the child, etc… A lot of politics here. $100 million will not bring back dead people back to life. Anyway, survivors sure can be helped. Hope the right decisions are made…

And guess who pays for the defense and settlement???

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The school was entrusted with the safety of their child and failed to protect their child. The school should have been aware this was a possibility and failed to take action.

Although $100 million is steep.

Seriously? And just what is a school supposed to do security wise besides lock the damn doors? Jesus our entire country is turning into a bunch of pussies that constantly need protection from real life. Sometimes serious shit just happens.

What do you propose, putting worthless mall cops with guns at the entry/exit points of every school in America?


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How about allowing kids to live and learn in a free environment knowing this is far better than instilling fear and paranoia over incidents that are as improbable and hard to defend against as getting struck by lightning.

Only in America... seriously.

The kids should get all the help needed, but 100 million...wtf? The kid will suffer more trauma from such a case.

Without a crystal ball - you can't prepare for every eventuality. It's just not possible. From my understanding, the school DID put a new security system into place, and did emergency drills.

What more could they have done to safe-guard the children?

And as said above - if a settlement is given...the school doesn't print money. It'll come from taxpayer money. We, the people.

You don't think schools should have armed guards, metal detectors, barbed wire fence, armored vehicles, roving foot patrols, gun turrets, a quick reaction force, tiers of radiation detection equipment at a 1, 3, 6 and 10 mile radius, under ground defensive tunnel networks, surface to air missile batteries and teachers need to be cleared by Homeland Security... because [some thing] is possible and its the schools responsibility to prevent it?

It's Rochard :2 cents:

Oh yea, never mind.

Damn I missed on a chance for big coin when I was a kid, We could made bank with all the teachers we drove bezerk enough to start cursing at us in class.

America, the land of the sue... :(

errrr sorry I ment land of opportunity

So you think every kid that was not killed should get a 100 million dollars? How much should the families who actually lost a child get paid then?

it's not like it would even be hard to pop a guard or 2 on the way in... it's not like these guards would be trained, in full gear, machine guns, fingers on the trigger, etc... more likely than not, it would just be some half-asleep rent-a-cop who hasn't fired a gun in his life...

Ban school intercoms:2 cents:

the sharks smell blood in the water. The NRA just better hope he doesnt decide to sue the gun manufacturers in CT.

Why would the NRA care about that? You think it is going somewhere? No CT gun manufacturers weapons were even involved were they?

I meant if they were to sue the gun manufacturers in the state of ct and if they won. It changes the gun business because then there would be precedent of gun manufactures held liable for the product they produce.
Who do you think the NRA works for, the people? lol

We all knew this was coming. Fucking scumbags.

I imagine the bloodsucker will settle for a few hundred k.

If you think your kids are safe in a public school you're an idiot to begin with. These parents need a reality check. Fucking scum.

Sue 'em all. Let the lawyers sort 'em out.

That's what my kid's school is doing.

It's also what this school did in CT - it required people to "show ID". That didn't seem to work well.

What are you saying - that I need to arm my 12 year old when she goes to school so she can protect herself?

I don't think that will happen. Our schools are laying off teachers and our local police departments here in CA are laying off offices - my town lost half of it's officers in the past five years. The schools can't afford it. There are 12 schools in my town here, and that's only a part of a school district. It would take dozens and dozens of officers to protect everything.

Our local police department, however, has announced they will do their best to keep officers near schools when they can. I think this is a great.

I agree - the school here had no chance. They tried to install a security system, practiced drills, and in the end it didn't help all that much.

I think their "security system" was lame. They required people to walk up to a locked door and show ID? I guess it never occurred to them that any gun man who wanted in would just blast their way in.

It's bloodsuckers like this shark that validate even the harshest of lawyer jokes.

Shakespeare had the right idea 600 years ago.

And what about malls and movie theaters? Some schools don't even have locked doors.

You can't turn every public place into a prison.

To that I would say, "tough shit bitch!!!"

At least you have your whiny little prince of Connecticut.

I can see why it would never occur to them, a school full of little children.

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Some huge "ifs" there.

thank you I agree but if the whole state has been greatly effected by this tragedy. That jury might not be that hard to find.

...or maybe the US Government (and the NRA) could be sued for allowing so many weapons, with so many bullets & magazines etc, into the hands of so many crazies, without doing proper background checks or proper registration, that it increases the likelihood of innocent people being shot, and therefore played a part in this....

Interesting..