The gun maker being sued by families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook shooting is seeking school records for some of the first-graders killed in the massacre, court filings show.
It’s the latest affront to the families as the landmark wrongful death lawsuit heads to a jury trial slated for later this year or early 2022, their attorney says.
Remington has filed subpoenas to obtain report cards, attendance lists and other academic records for five of the students who were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, 2012. A total of 20 children and six faculty members were killed.
The nation’s oldest gun manufacturer also asked the Newtown Public School District to provide employment files of four educators who died in the shooting. The five students and four educators are part of a long-running wrongful death suit against Remington over its marketing practices.
Calling the subpoenas an invasion of privacy, Josh Koskoff, the attorney representing nine families of victims, filed a motion on Thursday to seal the documents, which include application and admission paperwork, transcripts and disciplinary records.
A legal source familiar with the case, who was not authorized to speak about the pending litigation, told TIME that it is routine in wrongful death lawsuits for the defense team to subpoena education and medical records to determine damages.
It may sound crass,” the source says, “but at the end of the day, the jury is asked to put a dollar number on the decedent’s life.” Employment files that show salaries, for example, help determine that figure. And while a report card from kindergarten might not, the source says those files, while lower-level, are part of the overall procedure to gather every piece of information.
Koskoff disagrees, arguing those records would not help in estimating the “catastrophic” damages in this case.
“The records cannot possibly excuse Remington’s egregious marketing conduct,” he says. “The only relevant part of their attendance records is that they were at their desks on December 14, 2012.”
Thursday’s filing is the latest twist in the case. In an attempt to prove that Remington’s marketing strategies influenced the gunman to use a Bushmaster rifle for his shooting spree, the families have requested that Remington provide a slew of internal emails, social media analytics, advertising plans and more.
Instead, in July, Remington turned over tens of thousands of “random pictures” and cartoons—including images of Santa Claus and a bowl of ice cream. The legal source at the time said the seemingly random images were among tens of thousands of images and videos posted by third parties on Remington’s social media pages, and that all the material was turned over to plaintiffs as part of the discovery process.
Meanwhile, critics of the gun industry and scholars who have been closely eyeing the case say Remington’s internal documents could yield incriminating information—similar to the way a major civil settlement in 1998 forced the tobacco industry to disclose millions of pages of internal communications that revealed deceptive marketing practices.
Regardless of the jury decision, experts say the discovery process alone would give the public a rare glimpse into how a major gunmaker, which is usually shielded from lawsuits by federal law, markets its products.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gun-maker-being-sued-sandy-184548725.html
Oh how low they go
for a thin slice of that Mammon
Set a standard for to get some more
It’s way way way past fixing this fk job
They should ask for the attendance records
The utility records
And anything else they can think of to show that building wasn’t even in use the week before this false flag was pulled on the American public
Do a complete records check
And back ground check on everyone involved
Don’t stop there
Find out where those people all were the days before
And after the FF was pulled
Dig hard
Dig deep
Because all your going to find are huge piles of lies and bullshit
Pack a lunch and your hip waiters
And don’t let anyone gaslight you for demanding every bit of proof on this
As it is no manufacturer of an item can be held responsible for how their tool is used and for what
If that’s the case Ford , Chevy etc have a huge problem headed their way not to mention Sears . Black and decker , DeWalt .. the list is endless
Exactly full disclosure full discovery there is nothing that can’t be handed over, death certificates can be forgeries, they should be demanding EVERYFKNTHING the CSI videos pics autopsies on and on
Since a fkn retard can see the whole charade is a hoax
You telling me Remingtons lawyer team can’t mandate a full disclosure and absolute physical proof of death!? Prior to any trials…
All Scam BS just like Covid
Yep. A bunch of oxygen thieves who sit around and think of ways to twist words have had years to come up with an unlimited number of defenses to squash this shite and they can’t come up with ONE that most of us thought of the day it was hoaxed? C’mon. …
SPOT ON! That just may be why Remington lawyers are searching for the records. Unless the hoaxers prepared complete backgrounds, then there will be NO records. I’ve seen pictures of the “dead” in their later years all standing together in celebration of their production of Dec. 14, 2012.
Regardless of the jury decision, experts say the discovery process alone would give the public a rare glimpse into how a major gunmaker, which is usually shielded from lawsuits by federal law, markets its products.
1) …which is usually shielded from lawsuits by federal law,
Protection(s) from dumb@ss morons who shoot their foot off or anyone who tries to use this Tool inappropriately, and then tries to sue. This also applies to those gun grabbing idiots who sue “on behalf of” anyone.
2) …the discovery process alone would give the public a rare glimpse into how a major gunmaker … markets its products.
Oooooo, we all want to see that, don’t we? Is this meant to scare? Hmmm.