Last Friday, a New Haven attorney requested permission to file a $100 million lawsuit against the state of Connecticut on behalf of one of the survivors of the Newtown school shooting. But lawyer Irving Pinsky has had some second thoughts about going through with what some have implied is a ridiculous lawsuit—Pinsky is now withdrawing the filing because he received new evidence about the case: "I received new evidence on security at the school, which I need to evaluate," Pinsky told Connecticut Post.
Nevertheless, this doesn't preclude him from being able to refile for permission to sue. Pinsky had filed the claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor, identified as "Jill Doe," accusing the state of failing to protect students from "foreseeable harm." The claim argued that the state Board of Education, the state Department of Education and the education commissioner failed to take steps to protect the minor children from harm: "As a consequence, the claimant-minor child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined."
A spokeswoman for Attorney General George Jepsen said a public policy response by the U.S. Congress and the Connecticut state legislature would be "more appropriate" than any lawsuit: "Although the investigation is still under way, we are aware of no facts or legal theory under which the State of Connecticut should be liable for causing the harms inflicted at Sandy Hook Elementary School," Jepsen said in a statement Monday. Altogether, 20 children (all ages 6 and 7) and six educators were all killed when 20-year-old Adam Lanza went on his shooting spree December 14th at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
