Posted on 01/03/2018 11:47:13 AM PST by simpson96
The University of California-San Diego is now embroiled in a personal injury lawsuit after an election protest gone wrong.
Mariana Flores, a sophomore at UCSD, was demonstrating against Donald Trump’s victory on a busy San Diego freeway when a vehicle hit her. The accident crushed her pelvis, fractured her leg, and caused other serious injuries, reported The Guardian campus newspaper.
Flores, in her suit filed in late November, partly blames campus officials for her injury, arguing they should have stopped the protest before it got dangerous, according to news reports.(snip)
In an interview with The Guardian, Gene Sullivan, Flores’s lawyer, asserted that the university planned, organized and knew the protest was happening for hours and did nothing to stop it.
“According to Sullivan, not doing anything and failing to act is legally the same thing as supporting the protest,” the newspaper reported. “Sullivan further alleged that the protest was encouraged by people in positions of authority at the university, and that ‘if anyone that is in authority with the university – a [Residential Advisor] – says ‘let’s go,’ the university would be responsible.’”
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This is ridiculous wrapped in ridiculous - welcome to California and liberalism.
I hope she wins because then the universities will quit supporting this stuff. Tag them a few times and you’ll see a change because despite what they preach, for them its ALL about the money.
I am not sympathetic to the “they should have stopped me before I stupided” argument.
However, if the University in any way promoted this protest, they should be held responsible for the consequences. Maybe a few big buck law suits will get the universities to do a better job of policing themselves.
Frivolous. Dismissed with prejudice. Bailiff, slap this silly skank for wasting the court’s time.
University employees supported the protests and are complicit. Sue them.
“She gets the Darwin award for protesting on a busy freeway.”
I get hot thinking about the pain those injuries must have caused.
Sounds like a pretty weak case. She should be suing her family for being a defective gene pool. :-)
“...for playing in the street.”
Next time she should play on the autobahn...where there is no speed limit.
“In a rational tort claim of this nature,,,,”
In a rational tort claim of this nature both the plaintiff and lawyers would be executed. No more frivolous suits.
She is suing the university.The driver is also being sued..The driver should sue the university for putting her in his path...If she said the university was in charge of the protest,then they deserve to pay the driver millions,too...
The first rule of the tautology club is the first rule of the tautology club
That is actually happening in china- there has been incidents of someone hitting someone with a car, and then driving back over them to be sure they’re dead.
People do not play in traffic much in China.
Good point!
She wishes the school had stopped her from exercising he freedom of speech?
What is your major? Being a snowflake, moron?
If you’re gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough.
Should have called the street sweeper out for that garbage.
Exactly. I don’t think most of the people on this thread are getting that exactly point. This will make the professors and other “officials” at Universities who push this kind of nonsense liable.
Sending your kid to a California university these days is child abuse, unless you’ve done a magnificent job of raising your child to think clearly and logically. Students encounter a mine field of lies and Marxist propaganda at every turn.
this could really backfire big on the libtards.
maybe you see how it might as well.
Women never take responsibility for negative outcomes they are responsible for. Someone or something else is always shifted the blame.
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