The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3089104

NEWPORT NEWS — The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.

The motion was filed last week by attorneys representing the School Board and argues that Zwerner, who was shot in her classroom at Richneck Elementary in January by a 6-year-old student, is only entitled to file a worker’s compensation claim because the injury she sustained from the shooting is a “workplace injury,” and that the shooting was a hazard of the job.

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    208·
    11 months ago

    Not fair to blame the lawyer though. He’s hired to defend them to the best of his ability.

    You want to be mad. Be mad at the school that agreed that this is the defense they agreed to go for.

    • iegod@lemm.ee
      234·
      11 months ago

      You know, fuck that. I don’t agree. The lawyer is willfully making people and society worse in this defense, consciously. That is indefensible and condemnable.

      • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
        181·
        11 months ago

        There’s nothing stopping lawyers from dropping clients that make them go against their morals, so either the lawyer has no morals or their morals weigh less than the paycheck they’ll get.

        • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
          83·
          11 months ago

          They’re there to do their job. Creating the best defense possible. Why is that not fair given that the prosecution will do everything in their power to maximize damages?

          I don’t agree with the defense either. But who am I to say they can’t have one? It’s for the court to decide what happens next. I fully expect the prosecution, and the court to slam the defense to the ground.

      • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        11 months ago

        Everyone has the right to the best defense possible. That’s the only way it works.

        The defense does everything they can for their client. The prosecution does everything they can for theirs. And somewhere in the middle you’ll often find justice.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
      52·
      11 months ago

      No, I choose to blame the guy making money by defending the status quo.

      He could have chosen an honorable career, instead chose to defend scumbags for $$$.

      • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
        61·
        11 months ago

        Again. Either everyone is entitled to the best defense possible. Or no one is. Because who’s going to decide who can get a good defense and not?

        Do you know how many people have been tried for crimes they didn’t commit? People have been falsely accused of rape and gone to trial.

        Do they not deserve a good lawyer? Or is your moral compass going to decide ahead of each trial who is innocently accused or not to determine if they are allowed a lawyer or not?

        • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          11 months ago

          Calm down, Clarence Darrow, this is a civil case.

          Someone is spending money on lawyers instead of spending money to keep their employees safe.