Posted on 08/26/2016 2:01:11 PM PDT by ColdOne
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe and held in Antioch by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officers liable for failing to supervise her captor.
The ruling was made seven years to the day she was rescued - on Aug. 26, 2009. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled on this case in March, but Friday's decision was an expanded version of their original opinion. Friday's opinion now becomes a legal precedent. Dugard had argued, unsuccessfully, that federal parole officers failed to do their jobs well before Phillip Garrido snatched her away from her family in 1991 in South Lake Tahoe.
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What the hell were she and her lawyer thinking .... holding a public servant responsible for gross negligence .... lucky they were not slapped with a “frivolous lawsuit” penalty!
Schwarzenegger approved giving her $20 million in a settlement with California.
This lawsuit was against the feds. It sounds like part of the ruling in March was the feds claiming they weren’t liable because he was off federal parole by the time she was kidnapped. Her side was holding the U.S. liable because of other parole violations he made during that time that could’ve gotten him locked up before he kidnapped her.
Sorry - this is just olin wrong!!
Half of the voters in this country want to elect a demonstrable felon.
I'm thinking we need to pay, as punishment.
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