Rachel Corrie's family appeals lawsuit against bulldozer-maker

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ^ | 03/24/2006 | By GENE JOHNSON

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SEATTLE -- The parents of a 23-year-old who was killed trying to prevent the demolition of an occupied Palestinian home have appealed a judge's decision to dismiss their lawsuit against Caterpiller Inc., the company that made the bulldozer that ran over her.

"He applied the wrong legal standard and ignored the facts," said Maria LaHood, a lawyer with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights.

Rachel Corrie was killed three years ago by an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer. She was trying to stop him from demolishing a Gaza Strip home while the family was inside; though witnesses said she was clearly visible, the army claimed he didn't see her.

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LUNCHTIME BARFER ALERT!

[socal_parrot]

LUNCHTIME BARFER ALERT!

Pancakes aren't just for breakfast anymore

[L98Fiero]

Cue Nelson from the Simpsons...

[SeanOGuano]

For breakfast go to IHOP and order the Rachel Corrie special.

[trubluolyguy]

Suing the Bulldozer maker? Liberal morons!


Seems like it was functioning just fine to me.

[AmishDude]

Ah, the Sheehan method of cashing in on your dead adult children.

[kabar]

I thought it was only SUVs that ran amok.

[ClearCase_guy]

In the old days, a suspected witch was thrown into a pond. If she floated, she had magickal powers and would be killed. If she sank, she would be innocent (though drowned).

I suggest we test these bulldozers by having Rachel's parents lie down in front of them. If they end up flattened, then I would agree that they may have a point.

[colorcountry]

This is a joke, right?

[Pokey78]

[Sloth]

[1rudeboy]

Right. Wrong constitutional standard, namely the courts have no power to dictate U.S. foreign policy. /sarc

Ruling here. I didn't bother to read it in its entirety, it's fairly comprehensive.

[L98Fiero]

"Suing the Bulldozer maker? Liberal morons!"

The "activist" mindset is one of delusion. I've yet to see a liberal "activist" that lived in reality.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

How about suing the liberal Marxist professors who indoctrinated their daughter?

[socal_parrot]

In the old days, a suspected witch was thrown into a pond

Or they built a bridge out of her.

[Sloth]

[roaddog727]

Dopey mom - bring suit against the Israeli who drove it - not CAT. Then have it thrown out of Israeli court too.

Dope.

[caisson71]

The judge "ignored the facts"? The facts are pretty clear to most people. CAT vs. skinny, dumb person is no contest.

[dead]

Caterpillar should counter sue the parents. They raised the moron who got blood all over their pretty machine.

[jazusamo]

Yes...And her parents for not teaching her basic common sense.

[Baynative]

Rachel Corrie was killed herself three years ago by standing in front of an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer to demolish a terrorist safe house.

[sandbar]

The girl looks like a hateful idiot even in this photo.

I bet her parents are so proud.

Dumb morons raise an idiot that puts herself in front of a bulldozer and then they sue the bulldozer company for WORKING? Idiots

[bannedfromdu]

So that's what "NUMBNUTS" stands for.

[Bean Counter]

Maybe this will provide the first documented Miracle from St. Rachel The Flattened...

[george wythe]

All these American girls who like to hang out with terrorists refuse to accept responsility for their actions. There is another terrorist-loving American jailed in Peru, IIRC.

Even sadder is the fact that the apple did not fall too far from the tree.

[HardStarboard]

Rachel Corrie was wrong to stand in front of a bulldozer - flat wrong!

[ncountylee]

ROTFLMAO.

[Euro-American Scum]

Charter member of the Flat Earth Society.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

They missed the boat entirely.

Without diesel, the dozer wouldn't have run.

Sue the fuel supplier !

[FormerLib]

It's the parents' fault! Most folks teach their children not to play in traffic, let alone lay down in front of it.

[GadareneDemoniac]

They're suing the wrong people!!

I suggest they sue whatever backwater "college" she supposedly attended for not teaching her to get the heck out of the way of heavy equipment coming in her direction. Of course, the college could just say they help ignorance, not innate stupidity.

Or - and this just might work - they could sue themselves for negligent parenting and hope to settle with their homeowners' policy.

If they lose, will they be "flat" broke?

[pabianice]

"When bulldozers are outlawed, only outlaws will... ah... never mind..."

[Puppage]

[b4its2late]

[Convert from ECUSA]

Whatever it was that her parents smoked in college back in '68, it must have been mighty potent to still have effects on their brains 30-plus years later! Probably have their Volvo covered with "Ban bulldozers" and "Bulldozers kill people" bumper stickers.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Actually, she got run over sitting in the middle of nowhere while a contractor drove a bulldozer trying to dig up underground tunnels, while the israeli army people who would have been able to see her and stop the bulldozer were pinned down in their tanks by Palistinian sniper fire which oddly didn't try to shoot her.

The house they supposedly were "knocking down" was still standing a year later.

[Astronaut]

God I love the Rachel Corrie threads! Lets never miss the opportunity to mock the nitwit that thought she could take on a bulldozer. Lets continue to disparage the memory of the terrorist loving moron from Evergreen that hated America and Israel and gave aid and comfort to the enemies of both. Hope she's rotting in hell!

[Polyxene]

"He applied the wrong legal standard and ignored the facts."

In other words, he was FLAT-OUT wrong! LOL!

[Dustbunny]

Let me get this straight. She threw herself in front of a moving bulldozer, was killed and it is the bulldozer manufacturers fault.

Maybe her parents should have taught her some common sense and logic starting with never throw yourself in front of a moving vehicle or piece of equipment.

[festus]

Cat needs to counter sue for defamation.

[Rummyfan]

Suddenly I'm thinking of pancakes for breakfast tomorrow!

[talleyman]

Boy, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, does it?

[Euro-American Scum]

Let me get this straight. She threw herself in front of a moving bulldozer, was killed and it is the bulldozer manufacturers fault.

No. It's Bush's fault. I'm surprised this family of whacked-out loons isn't suing him too.

[KarlInOhio]

I suggest they sue whatever backwater "college" kindergarten she supposedly attended for not teaching her to get the heck out of the way of heavy equipment coming in her direction.

[Baynative]

Thanks for that clarification. I always wondered why none of These Pictures seem to be near that widely publicized house and fence shot. Infact they don't even appear to be the same tractor, the same terrain or the same excavation scar.

[GadareneDemoniac]

She's FR's mascot!

Our own little dummy! Face contorted with rage (or pain from getting her little fingers burned while buring a drawn copy of our flag) while the kids around her look on with amusement, trying to look intelligent in the photo shown on a prior post, the K-Mart portrait that Arafat presented the dummy parents -- it just goes on and on. She's our little pet.

[BunnySlippers]

These people make me SICK!

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[HumanitysEdge]

Perhaps the company should sue the Corries for their daughter being where she should not have been

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

It sure seems to have done so in this case!!!