Posted on 02/02/2023 7:56:46 AM PST by dennisw
Kyle Rittenhouse, who skyrocketed to fame in right-wing circles after shooting and killing two protesters during a social rights march in 2020, is now facing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the victim's father, according to PBS.
The lawsuit was filed by John Huber, the father of one of the two victims, and also includes city officials and police officers. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman dismissed motions from the city officials, police officers and Rittenhouse to dismiss the civil rights case in its entirety.
Huber's lawsuit states that Rittenhouse conspired with police officers to intentionally cause harm to the protesters who were marching in reaction to the shooting of Jacob Blake, who was injured by a Wisconsin police officer.
Rittenhouse was a minor at age 17 at the time.
In the ruling Adelman said Huber's death "could plausibly be regarded as having been proximately caused by the actions of the government defendants. Huber was killed after Rittenhouse was running after he shot and killed his first victim in the parking lot of a car dealership and Huber hit Rittenhouse with a skateboard to disarm him. After falling to the ground Rittenhouse fatally shot Huber and wounded another protester Gaige Grosskreutz, who also has filed a civil lawsuit against Rittenhouse.
Huber's lawyers and private investigators needed over 100 hours to locate Rittenhouse to serve him with the civil lawsuit paperwork, eventually serving him at his sister's house. Rittenhouse's lawyers tried to argue the case should be dismissed because he was not properly served. The judge dismissed that claim.
Rittenhouse has become a popular Republican right-wing speaker at public events and has nearly 1 million followers on Twitter.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Jacob Blake was shot and injured, but not killed, as originally reported.
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I suspect the Plaintiff will have a difficult time establishing a conspiracy between Rittenhouse and the police. In order to show a conspiracy, the Plaintiff must establish that the defendants agreed to achieve a particular result, here to injure or kill Huber, and that once the agreement was made Rittenhouse performed an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. The motion denied by the Court, based upon what has been reported, did not address the question of the existence of a conspiracy. Rather, it simply said that Rittenhouse had been properly served, notified, of the lawsuit. I suspect that upon the completion of all pre-trial discovery, which can be extensive in a civil case, Rittenhouse will move to dismiss the claim for failure to state a cause of action for which relief can be granted. If that motion is denied, then the case will proceed to trial at which the Plaintiff will have the burden of establishing the conspiracy.
True! This is a lefty hit job with some actual facts included. Facts such as Kyle Rittenhouse now has a new legal assault (lawfare) on him. There is no end to what DemocRat scum will try through the courts.
In a wrongful death suit where the deceased is 26 years old, it’s not easy in many states for a parent to demonstrate that they even have the legal standing to sue for damages. A spouse or child can show loss of financial support over the course of many years, and actuarial tables are used to estimate what kind of monetary award is reasonable.
Unless thy is mutant was the legally designated caretaker for elderly parents, I don’t think they have much of a case at all.
And how does this fine establishment of publishing know Huber's intent?
That poor kid. He was interviewed at TPUSA’s AmFest in December. He is being harassed and stalked, and they are doing everything to torment him, and break him in every possible way. He has no money and relies on donations (via GiveSendGo, I think) to fight the suits. He has a girlfriend and they’re sticking this out together. Very sad.
Well maybe Kyle can start a “givesendgo” fundraising page to help with the costs. The problem Wil. Be though getting the word out there that there is a fundraiser page for him.
Also, I think he was considering suing news media for falsely accusing him of things- not sure if he has or if he won any of the cases, but he should do,so now.
During the trial, the prosecutors really tried to make a deal out of Kyle's affinity with the cops. It wasn't too impressive.
That poor kid. He was interviewed at TPUSA’s AmFest in December. He is being harassed and stalked, and they are doing everything to torment him, and break him in every possible way. He has no money and relies on donations (via GiveSendGo, I think) to fight the suits. He has a girlfriend and they’re sticking this out together. Very sad.
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Thanks this morning, lovely MM. I was not aware of this. Sorry to use a cliché, but you know what’s going on.
And I’m sure if Kyle opens a go fund me it’ll get shut down
That whole thing was intense man. Kyle’s got more fortitude than most “men”.
Yup, and Kyle should sue them into oblivion for continuing to falsely accuse him of things he didn’t do. I think if he were to threaten that, that the news media would go wobbly and beg the father of the kid who got shot to drop his lawsuit, and offer him a substantial pile of soros money instead. ,yle should announce a $5 or $10 billion dollar lawsuit against one of the media networks-
COUNTERSUE..................
Givesendgo is a better a,ternative- I don’t think they will shut him down
That’s their job: get it wrong (facts), but right with the leftist agenda’s talking points, and have History write it their way. And it will.
Remember that Nic0loe Simpsons' parents won against O.J., as did Ron Goldmans' parents also.
This Huber is the one who chased and then whacked Kyle with a skateboard.
Anyway, the irony is, the only one ‘disarmed’ was Gaige Grosskreutz, who was disarmed by Rittenhouse.
[[the Plaintiff must establish that the defendants agreed to achieve a particular result, here to injure or kill Huber, and that once the agreement was made Rittenhouse performed an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy]]
That fact alone should have had the request for a trial thrown out, as it is ludicrous to even think that that is what went down. Th3 plaintiffs I’m sure had no evidence to back the rediculous allegation up.
I wonder if Kyle’s team can request that another judge decide if the plaintiffs case can proceed or not based on the fact that this judge is allowing the case to move forward with no evidence to back up the accusation?
At this point, i tbink it is turning into a case of malicious prosecution
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