100M suit filed in Sandy Hook Shooting

[Racket_Man]

a lawyer repesenting a minor CHILD and their family have asked for permission to SUE the state of Conn on the basis of :

Pinsky's claim says the state Board of Education, the state Department of Education and the education commissioner failed to take steps to protect the minor children from foreseeable harm.

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

It seems that the claim is that the shooter should have been know as a potential threat by law enforcement and they should have stopped him )ala the precog's in the movie Minority Report)

Money grab, or years of therapy, or resonable law suit????

[Nekojin]

*facepalm*

Random psychotic attacks are a "foreseeable harm"?

[AccountingDrone]

Really, short of putting every single room in a school into lockdown as soon as all the kids are in for the day, I can not think of how to defend against random psychotic shooters.

And imagine the shitstorm changing schools to deal with this would be.
Every room has to have its own toilet, preferably 2 - one for boys and one for girls. Every teacher would have to teach every single subject - just like one of the old 1 room school houses.
Each student would have to bring a lunch, or some sort of box lunch would have to be produced and locked into each classroom at the beginning of every day.

And the kids would still be at risk getting TO the school, and getting HOME from the school.

[anakhouri]

Money grab, coupled with panic at what happened in their own kid's school. Give it a year and they'll feel stupid for even suggesting this silliness (I hope). I'm sure there's a lawyer somewhere encouraging them every step of the way as well.

Even if you could read people's mind as in Dick's Minority Report, there's a difference between entertaining a thought and intention, and a bigger one between intention and action.

[daleduke17]

Money grab, coupled with panic at what happened in their own kid's school.

I'm surprised it took this long to get the money grabs going. It seems like it has been a recent thing where after an incident that the money grabs get going. Aurora, CO I know there was one. NIU, Columbine, and Nickel Mines I don't remember hearing of any money grabs. The latter probably moreso due to it being an Amish school and not a bunch of money driving lawyers to be found.

[bara]

Hey, someone might as well make out from this tragedy. Right...

This is awful. I wish to God almighty that this hadn't happened. Id give my life if it would mean it hadn't and I'd give my life to stop it from ever happening again.
This isn't an opportunity for someone to profit and the fact that anyone is trying to make it like that sickens me to no end.

[lordlundar]

Is it wrong that I want to see the situation in Schlock Mercenary come true where shady lawyers have a bounty?

[Rapscallion]

If the harm was so 'foreseeable', why didn't the plaintiff speak up ahead of time?

Rapscallion

[bara]

If the harm was so 'foreseeable', why didn't the plaintiff speak up ahead of time?

Rapscallion

Excellent point. Since clearly the plaintiff have clairvoyance and did nothing to stop this, perhaps we should all sue him?

[bainsidhe]

So the lawyer has withdrawn the suit....for now.
http://www.inquisitr.com/463809/newt...n-by-attorney/
I suspect this was temporarily withdrawn because of the backlash and that they'll retry once things have settled down. Supposedly the lawsuit wasn't a cash-grab (yeah right), but an effort to improve safety. Not sure how that would be possible, without making schools into a prison.

[fireheart17]

Not sure how that would be possible, without making schools into a prison.

By putting more paperwork, checks and training on staff before they can even set foot into a school.

For example, at the moment down here, parents who want to listen to children reading in the mornings (a normal habit for kids in years K-3 down here) need to go through a police check and mandatory notification. If you're working in the canteen on a volunteer basis (schools down here do not have cafeterias per se, it's more like a tuckshop type thing where you can then eat lunch anywhere to your heart's content ), you need to have done a food safety course.

I suspect that the paperwork for the volunteers would mount even further and include a psychiatric review to be done every three to six months, a drug test done randomly, a medical etc.

In other words, making it incredibly hard for innocent parents to even help out the classroom. Teachers cannot survive without parental helpers.

And imagine the shitstorm changing schools to deal with this would be.
-Every room has to have its own toilet, preferably 2 - one for boys and one for girls.
--Every teacher would have to teach every single subject - just like one of the old 1 room school houses.
=Each student would have to bring a lunch, or some sort of box lunch would have to be produced and locked into each classroom at the beginning of every day.

-That's just way way way too much work. And what about disabled kids? So it would be more like 3 (which is just as stupid)
--I hope you're referring to secondary schools, since down here, teachers teach every single subject where possible apart from a second language (in most cases) and in some schools, music and PE.
=Schools down here do this where possible. My Grade six and seven teachers were in the same block of classrooms, which had a fridge, and they'd allow students to put their lunches in there for the day.