Families of Uvalde shooting victims sue gunman for $100M

[AZProgressive]

Four families whose children were injured during a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are suing the estate of the gunman responsible for more than $100 million.

The families filed the lawsuit in the 38th Judicial District Court in Uvalde, seeking compensation for physical and emotional damages stemming from the shooting, according to the complaint.

The lawsuit seeks compensation in excess of $100 million from the estate of Salvador Ramos, whom law enforcement officials shot and killed after he opened fire inside Robb Elementary School on May 24, killing 19 children and two adults.

He also injured 17 additional children and adults during the shooting. The law firm of Thomas J. Henry is representing four of the families whose children were injured in the shooting.

https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3515231-families-of-uvalde-shooting-victims-sue-gunman-for-100m/

[grumpyduck]

1. They won't get a penny.

Should sue the city, the district, and the cops too.

[SharonClark]

2. and gun makers, gun sellers, and the NRA.

[dchill]

3. Agreed indeed.

[onecaliberal]

5. Gun makers.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. They need to sue Daniels Defense which is the manufacturer of gun uesd

This makes me smile

Link to tweet

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/sandy-hook-lawyer-uvalde-17226125.php?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sftwitter&utm_source=twitter.com

— Will the attorney who won a $73 million settlement from Remington for nine Sandy Hook families use the same playbook in his legal dealings with the company that made the AR-15-style rifle used in the Texas massacre last month?

Yes and no.

“Of course you look at the precedent, but in any complicated case as grievous and shattering as this, you have to keep your toolkit wide open and look at everything,” said Josh Koskoff, a Bridgeport attorney who last week made national news by calling on rifle maker Daniel Defense to provide “information about its marketing, especially to teens and children” and about the gun company’s communications with the Uvalde shooter. “The Sandy Hook playbook is part of it, but you don’t want to start out with tunnel vision because you can miss what’s right in front of you.”......

Koskoff and a team of Texas lawyers who are representing the parents of a slain Uvalde fourth-grade girl in many ways drew the battle lines last week for a legal fight with Georgia-based Daniel Defense. The parents’ lawyers called on the company to turn over information “relevant to your marketing of AR-15 style rifles to teens and children; to your incitement and encouragement of the assaultive use of these weapons; to your on-line purchase system; and to your communications, on any platform, with the Uvalde shooter; and to your awareness of the prior use of AR-15 style rifles in mass shootings.”.....

In Connecticut, where nine families sued Remington for unlawful marketing of the AR-15-style rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre, Koskoff attorneys were seeking Remington’s internal marketing documents right up to February, when the defunct manufacturer’s four insurance companies offered to the families all they had left after two Remington bankruptcies — $73 million.

[MagickMuffin]

6. The Mass Murderer shot up 38 people

But heyheyhey for the NRA. They make so many people happy.