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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUvalde shooting victims file $27 billion class-action suit
https://archive.ph/4KviVDecember 2, 2022 12:03 AM UTC
By Daniel Trotta
Dec 1 (Reuters) - Victims of the Uvalde mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in May have filed a $27 billion class-action lawsuit against an array of public entities and officials, seeking damages for ongoing trauma.
The suit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas names the city of Uvalde, its police department, the school district, the state Department of Public Safety and several police and school officials, alleging they failed to follow protocols for an active shooter.
The class-action suit seeks damages for the survivors including parents whose children were killed and kids who witnessed the massacre, said attorney Charles Bonner, whose California law firm brought the suit. Anyone else in the "zone of danger" could join the suit, Bonner said.
"Parents were telling us that kids are threatening suicide, they're totally changed from what they were on May 23, the day before the incident," Bonner told reporters in Uvalde on Wednesday.
The suit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas names the city of Uvalde, its police department, the school district, the state Department of Public Safety and several police and school officials, alleging they failed to follow protocols for an active shooter.
The class-action suit seeks damages for the survivors including parents whose children were killed and kids who witnessed the massacre, said attorney Charles Bonner, whose California law firm brought the suit. Anyone else in the "zone of danger" could join the suit, Bonner said.
"Parents were telling us that kids are threatening suicide, they're totally changed from what they were on May 23, the day before the incident," Bonner told reporters in Uvalde on Wednesday.
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Uvalde shooting victims file $27 billion class-action suit (Original Post)
usonian
Dec 2022
OP
Such a tragedy. They should win, but doesn't TX filling restrict punitive damage?
clutterbox1830
Dec 2022
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Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Are any of those public entities 'gun manufacturers', by chance? (nt)
usonian
(9,924 posts)4. Doesn't look like it. That might be a separate suit. N/T
BigmanPigman
(51,646 posts)2. "Kids threatening suicide"
Lovely.
I hope they nail every liar and coward, from the local cop to the lying gov of TX. All of them are guilty to a degree.
littlemissmartypants
(22,841 posts)3. ...
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)8. +1
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️
clutterbox1830
(395 posts)5. Such a tragedy. They should win, but doesn't TX filling restrict punitive damage?
According to google:
In Texas, punitive damages may not exceed more than twice the amount of awarded economic damages plus the awarded non-economic damages (which can't exceed $200,000). Furthermore, punitive damages cannot exceed $750,000, unless the non-economic damages are worth the maximum $200,000.
PSPS
(13,626 posts)6. Apparently not. Alex Jones' judge didn't apply it.
IcyPeas
(21,927 posts)7. Remember when they released the video: The Sound of Children Screaming Has Been Removed
"kids who witnessed the massacre" are part of the lawsuit
These poor kids. I can't even imagine what they saw and heard.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,112 posts)9. hope they city has good insurance