Facts: August 2006, New Jersey Turnpike, an automobile accident is caused by a speeding tractor-trailer, which plows into stalled traffic, killing Theresa and Charles Christmas and their 2 year-old daughter, Victoria, as well as Norma Ryan.
Facts: Attorney William B. Ziff on behalf of the NJT Authority, files lawsuit seeking to regain restitution for the damages done to the Turnpike, from the families of the dead victims, which includes the Christmas' baby daughter who survived the crash.
It was only after Kieran Crowley of the New York Post made inquires concerning the suit did the JTA drop it. "It should not have happened," said NJTA spokesman Joe Orlando. "It was a clerical error. We would like to apologize to the family."
Does anyone else have a feeling that the only thing the heads at the NJTA are sorry about is the fact that this ever came out to the light of day? "Clerical Error" Yea right. Someone in authority directed Ziff to file the papers for the lawsuit and someone in authority eventually directed him to drop the suit. This was no clerical error, by a long shot. I also tend to wonder and ask myself, how far the idiots at the New Jersey TA would have taken this, if they had not be called on it.
You can say a lot about the screwed up legal system in Texas, but one thing I can say with confidence, even Texans would not have done this.
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After the Titanic sank, the company withheld the wages from the families of the working victims to cover the costs of the lost uniforms.
How in the hell do you think you "know" this ???
Okay, it was a stupid move- you didn't tell us if they also tried to sue the man driving the trailer truck, or the company that owned it. Normally in situations like this, EVERYONE gets put on the list to be sued, and names are dropped from the suit when the full investigation is over, so that only those to blame are sued.
My complaint with your "reporting" of this story however, is that you assume far too much, and believe you are qualified to make silly statements like the one above.
You pretend to "know" what you cannot possibly know, and even use a sarcastic tone to imply you are infallible in your conclusions.
Pathetic really.