Her husband was killed by this maniac. Have you no mercy?
Her husband was killed by this maniac. Have you no mercy?
Mercy?
Are you serious? And just where do you get the idea that mercy should be involved? Your kid drives recklessly, should YOU be sued and incarcerated because YOU should have known he'd drive recklessly? Maybe the widow should sue Stack's neighbors for not noticing him to be a bit off kilter. Perhaps the IRS should have known Stack was an unstable tax protester and tried to get him institutionalized because he might have been a future danger? What about the FAA? Shouldn't they have had information he might have used one of his planes for a terrorist attack? Stack went to MS Hershey School, very close to where I live. Local stories from those who went to school with him said he had a bad temper. Should they be sued because they knew he had a long history of intemperance?
Stack did what he did. No one else is to blame. His widow did not force him to make his decision to fly that plane into the building. He was a human being with free will. The responsibilities for his actions are his and his alone.
Are you a "lawyer"???
what does mercy have to do with a frivolous lawsuit?
I would argue that there was no maniac in this equation except the maniac enterprise that was attacked.
Hard to refute that in court, lots of support and an irrefutable premise.
The maniac also tried to kill his wife and child, setting the house on fire with them in it. For her to now be served with lawsuit papers is adding egregious insult to her injuries.
People who bring frivolous law suits do not deserve mercy.
It would certainly be justified to sue Stack's estate. But the wife? Nope.
In any case, if Stack's suicide note is accurate, there's not likely to be much in the way of assets.
The wife wasn't the co-pilot.
You wrote:
“Her husband was killed by this maniac. Have you no mercy?”
How is it merciful to sue a widow over something her husband did unbeknownst to her? That sounds like a terrible injustice to me. If your spouse murders mine, do I get to sue you even though you knew nothing about it?