Gunmaker seeks confidential school records of slain Sandy Hook first graders

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The Remington subpoena demands, among other things, the children’s “application and admission paperwork, attendance records, transcripts, report cards, (and) disciplinary records.”

The families suing Remington Arms over its marketing of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook School massacre want a court to order the gunmaker to keep confidential school records it has subpoenaed about five children and four educators who died in the 2012 attack in Newtown.

The latest salvo in the dispute was fired by attorney Joshua D. Koskoff, who represents estates of the nine, in response to subpoenas from Remington Arms to Newtown Public Schools for employment files of the four teachers, as well as the kindergarten and first-grade educational records of Jesse Lewis, Daniel Barden, Dylan Hockley, Benjamin Wheeler and Noah Pozner — the five schoolchildren for whom claims have brought in the case.

“We have no explanation for why Remington subpoenaed the Newtown Public School District to obtain the kindergarten and first grade academic, attendance and disciplinary records of these five school children,” Koskoff said.
“The records cannot possibly excuse Remington’s egregious marketing conduct, or be of any assistance in estimating the catastrophic damages in this case. The only relevant part of their attendance records is that they were at their desks on December 14, 2012.”

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/09/in-sandy-hook-shootings-court-case-gunmaker-seeks-confidential-school-records-of-slain-first-graders.html

[DeeNice]

1. WTAF

no words...

[lagomorph777]

2. This is reason to shut them down.

[alwaysinasnit]

5. Remington has already gone through bankruptcy last year and it is the vultures who bought

pieces of it who are now trying to defend against this lawsuit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/remington-auctioned-off-to-seven-bidders-in-bankruptcy-court

[viva la]

3. What on earth do the attorneys intend to do with this?

Threaten to reveal that one of the kids got into trouble once on the playground?

[forgotmylogin]

4. Yeah, I don't think "blame the victim" should even be a factor here. n/t

[George II]

6. How disgusting and insensitive. These people truly are ghoulish and without conscience. It's sad...

....that this case has gone on for so long, interrupted first by a CT Superior Court ruling that the suit was invalid due to the PLCAA and at least one bankruptcy.

Thankfully the CT Supreme Court overruled the Superior Court and allowed the suit to proceed.

Let's get this thing done now!

[SoonerPride]

7. No one wants to hear this but I actually think the press should show pictures of the dead bodies

And all the pictures of all bodies destroyed by guns

I think what turned the tide in Vietnam was the news showing pictures of the dead soldiers and people were sickened by it and quickly turned against the war.

For too long the families carry this private knowledge of these horrors and public gets a clear sanitized version of reality.

Show the harsh uncompromising view of what an AR-15 does to 1st graders and see if they still are defended by anyone in Congress.

I am willing to bet they get outlawed in a week.

[dalton99a]

8. The lawyers should produce THEIR first-grade school records so we can see if they deserve punishment

Absolute fucking evil pieces of SHIT

[rhiannon55]

9. Maybe they believe the "crisis actors" lie

And want to prove that those children and staff never existed.

I hate those Repuke fuckers!

[greenjar_01]

10. It's one thing for Random Joe Moron to go on Alex Jones and claim these children didn't exist

But is that actually the legal strategy that Remington plans to pursue in a court of law.