An interesting lawsuit was pointed out to me.
The Times Union reports:
“Officials in a tiny North Country school district are seeking to file a claim against the parents of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself in October 2023 after being accused of sexual misconduct and suspended. The boy’s father, Chad Poirier, filed a federal lawsuit last year against the Chazy Central Rural School District as well as current and former officials … The teen, Owen Poirier, became so distraught he fatally shot himself hours after being made aware of — and denying — the allegation against him, the lawsuit states. The school district has denied the lawsuit’s allegations. Its proposed third-party claim, filed against Chad and Tammy Poirier and their businesses in U.S. District Court in Albany, argues that the parents were negligent in failing to prevent the teen from obtaining the firearm and ammunition he used to take his own life — a weapon the district’s claim says was stored in a safe at the parents’ complex of businesses in Plattsburgh. The claim argues that, if the district’s defendants are found liable in the teen’s death, the parents should be held responsible for a proportionate role in their son’s suicide. A federal magistrate judge gave the district permission to seek to file the proposed claim, though he has not yet decided whether the claim itself can proceed …”
That’s outrageous. The judge should throw that garbage out.