OK. Now that you have the facts please apologize the the grieved widow.
www.kvue.com
Tuesday, the attorney for Hunter's widow filed a wrongful death lawsuit with a temporary restraining order to prevent the public release of Hunter's autopsy.
"The family wanted the autopsy report on Mr. Hunter to remain private," said Daniel Ross, the attorney representing Hunter's family.
Ross said the family was concerned about graphic details about Hunter's death being released.
"Mr. Hunter had 8 grandchildren at various ages and they simply did not want any of them reading the details of the autopsy," Ross said.
Legally, there could have been no temporary restraining order without a lawsuit. That's why the wrongful death lawsuit was filed against the estate of Joe Stack. The suit names Stack's wife, Sheryl, as the administrator or executor of that estate, which is also required by law according to Ross. Ross said he did not alert Mrs. Stack about the suit because he didn't know how to reach her.
"My client of course has stated that her heart goes out to Mrs. Stack and she considers Mrs. Stack as much a victim in this as anyone else," Ross said.
We haven’t seen details of the autopsy.
How hard it to keep that info out of public record for grandchildren to see?
I didn’t read my own Fathers. The reasoning sounds very unclear. Why would children be concerned with this level of macabre detail?
In light of that I would say the system needs to be fixed. Why the requirement to have a wrongful death suit filed just to prevent the public release of an autopsy? It does not make sense to my non-legal mind.
Does that mean every autopsy in Texas is fair game unless the family of the deceased hires an attorney to file a wrongful death suit?
Seriously trying to figure this out. What if Joe Stack went into his bedroom and put a bullet in his brain? Would Mrs. Stack have to file a wrongful death case to keep the autopsy private? If so, the suit woud be filed against whom?
This is what the original post stated:
(CNN) -- The widow of an Internal Revenue Service employee killed when a disgruntled taxpayer flew his plane into a seven-story building in Austin, Texas, last week is suing the pilot's wife, according to court documents.
Valerie Hunter, the wife of Vernon Hunter, is accusing Sheryl Stack, wife of Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III, of negligence, alleging she she knew or should have known that her husband was a threat to others and, thus, could have prevented the attack, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Travis County District Court.
I commented on this post and the subsequent defense of the widow Hunter to go after the widow Stack.
If the widow Hunter is not holding the widow Stack responsible for the actions of Mr. Stack, then either the original post is incorrect or there are details that have not been subsequently made public or clear that would lead one to conclude there will be civil action taken against widow Stack for her deceased husband's actions.
Thank you. I am glad to hear that the victim’s wife is indeed a person of compassion. I don’t understand a legal system that requires a lawsuit to keep autopsy reports for an individual from being made public tho. Of course, we all know who writes the laws....