Profiteering from the CT shooting

[Sam1]

http://news.yahoo.com/conn-attorney-asks-sue-state-shooting-065258482.html

 

 

 

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A New Haven attorney is asking permission to sue the state for $100 million on behalf of a student who survived the mass shooting at a Newtown school.

The Hartford Courant reports (http://cour.at/Tvo5v9) that attorney Irving Pinsky filed notice Thursday with Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr. The state has immunity against most lawsuits unless permission to sue is granted.

 

Pinsky said the 6-year-old student, identified as "Jill Doe," was in her classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 when "the horrific confrontation" with Adam Lanza came over the loudspeaker.

 

Lanza killed 20 first grade students and six adult staffers at the school before killing himself. Pinsky said the student has been traumatized by the killings, and accused the state of failing to protect students from "foreseeable harm."

 

The gun grabbers were disgusting, but these people make me ashamed to be of the same species.

[Hershmeister]

What is the possible case here? Gun restrictions not tough enough ?

[Jonnin]

the state IS at fault.  Or the feds.  Whoever is behind the law that disarmed the teachers --- because that is the problem and you can bet its worth a lawsuit to make that point.

Edited December 30, 2012 by Jonnin

[Garufa]

The poor child only "heard" what was going on.  She obvsiously fully understood what was happening and is now scarred for life...not.

 

[quote]A lawyer who's asking to sue Connecticut for $100 million on behalf of a 6-year-old Newtown school shooting survivor who heard violence over the school's intercom system says the potential claim is about improving school security, not money.[/quote]

 

http://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-100m-school-shooting-claim-security-184925148.html

[Whistle4Fly]

This is most likely a shock factor from the attorneys to test the water. I'm sure they will have other grounds to follow.

[Sam1]

This is most likely a shock factor from the attorneys to test the water. I'm sure they will have other grounds to follow.

 

Yep, cause anything of this magnitude would have requested settlements literraly in the trillions. 

[TMF]

Disgusting. Of course this is about money. It is silly to say the school didn't do everything within reason to prevent this, or at least mitigate risk to a reasonable level. This guy would have succeeded in killing folks no matter where he chose to go on a rampage. Didn't a guy just go on a shooting spree in a police station in NJ? Nearly everyone in there is armed and folks were still shot. This lawyer needs to be raped by a rhinoceros.

[Guest CCI]

 Hope she doesn't get scared on the 4th of July!

Edited December 30, 2012 by CCI

[mav]

The thing that really rubs me the wrong way is people's belief that they are just taking money from the government.  They are not.  They are trying to extort money from the taxpayers of the state of Connecticut.  What is even worse is that some of those taxpayers lost a child in this shooting.  Pathetic.