https://www.zerohedge.com/political/remington-reaches-historic-33-million-settlement-families-sandy-hook-victims


Remington Reaches Historic $33 Million Settlement With Families Of Sandy Hook Victims

Waiting for those parents to sue the makers of the antidepressant Celexa, the School district and his doctors, they had way more to do with the incident directly than Remmy ever did. Instead they are going after Alex Jones for being Alex Jones after the fact.

Granted I haven't read the specifics of the claim but I can't understand how the plaintiffs have any chance of winning at all. They made the product that was perfectly legal and they didn't sell it directly to the shooter so its not like anyone can claim they were negligent.

Granted I haven't read the specifics of the claim but I can't understand how the plaintiffs have any chance of winning at all. They made the product that was perfectly legal and they didn't sell it directly to the shooter so its not like anyone can claim they were negligent.

One of the big problems with our legal system.
Is that it is designed to "wear people out".
Not provide for a quick and fair decision.
Like Young v Hawaii.  He'll be dead before he wins his case.
That is not a justice system, that is warfare.
Wars are won by attrition, not brute force, or what is right or wrong.

Easy fix, none of this lawyers taking on a case and only being
paid if they win.  Pay as you go.  Or let the lawyer do it "Pro bono"
because it is the right thing to do,  with no reward from
deep pockets at the end.

That will narrow the field.
 

This is a common link with a lot of  active shooters and anti depressants. A lot of them are on it. Here are a few off the top of my head: Sandy Hook, Vegas, Maddison Stone Douglas, Columbine, Oregon theater. 

Hundred percent agree with first paragraph.
Second paragraph, if you win a lawsuit in Hawaii you can file for fees and costs. I don’t know if it’s Federal but this was in Federal Court.
The insurance company I was at I was in the investigative unit for a while. We denied a claim for a house burning down because the customer arsoned it.
Claim was for $400,000 dollars. Customer sued us.
We won, filed for fees and costs, it was granted by the Court, and he owed us $300,000 for legal fees and costs.
They never paid us but can’t ever get credit or a loan again. And I don’t know what their own fees and costs were.
And that was a relatively quick trial.

You sue someone and lose. Be ready to pay out of your own ass.
Insurance involved. It becomes all economic except These folks held out longer than most against against big insurance.

Sandy Hook was in 2012.

It's now 8 1/2 years later.

It's not about having the proof to win.

It's about dragging it out long enough that (1) the gun maker can't afford to defend against the suit any longer, (2) the insurer/s decide/s to settle rather than pay more in litigation costs which carries with it the risk of losing as well.

This is a common link with a lot of  active shooters and anti depressants. A lot of them are on it. Here are a few off the top of my head: Sandy Hook, Vegas, Maddison Stone Douglas, Columbine, Oregon theater. 

The question then is whether the anti depressants contributed to their violent actions or whether they already had violent tendencies and the anti depressents  were trying to reduce or treat the violent tendencies.

I get that tactic but shouldn't the suit be tossed out as a nuisance suit then? Even if not can the lawyer bill really add up to that much where 33 millions seems like a good deal to settle?

Really?  You think a lawsuit the DEFENDANT can't win on the facts is FRIVOLOUS?  You should be a defense attorney if you can get a strong plaintiff's case tossed on the grounds that the defense has no chance.   

A case has to be frivolous on its face.  There have been hearings that decided the plaintiffs can proceed, so that whole discussion is moot.

Judge rejects gun maker’s bid to toss Sandy Hook litigation
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/judge-rejects-gun-makers-bid-to-toss-sandy-hook-litigation/

As for the amounts -- getting a precedence-setting decision can devastate the entire gun industry.  Ever read the book "The Runaway Jury?"  There was a multi-million dollar legal fund created by the big tobacco companies to fight any lawsuits that claimed cigarettes killed a relative.  If just one claimant prevailed, it would open the floodgates for similar lawsuits to be decided against the tobacco industry.

(Note: The movie changed the plot for "The Runaway Jury" to be about school shootings, claiming the gun makers were complicit.)