Comments on: Uvalde Parents Settle With City for $2 Million, File New Suit Against Texas DPS https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/uvalde-parents-settle-with-city-for-2-million-file-suit-against-texas-dps/ Fri, 24 May 2024 00:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Dude https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/uvalde-parents-settle-with-city-for-2-million-file-suit-against-texas-dps/comment-page-1/#comment-2907 Fri, 24 May 2024 00:45:38 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=7458#comment-2907 In reply to Geoff “I’m getting too old for this shit” PR.

Much less after the lawyers cut. Peanuts

]]> By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/uvalde-parents-settle-with-city-for-2-million-file-suit-against-texas-dps/comment-page-1/#comment-2905 Fri, 24 May 2024 00:40:31 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=7458#comment-2905 Is that 2 million divided up with *all* the parents of the dead kids? 🙁

]]> By: LKB https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/uvalde-parents-settle-with-city-for-2-million-file-suit-against-texas-dps/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 Thu, 23 May 2024 13:20:46 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=7458#comment-2876 The failings of law enforcement in this sad story were epic, and those responsible need to be held accountable.

However, the plaintiffs are going to face *huge* problems overcoming a qualified immunity defense in a lawsuit against DPS. While I don’t like qualified immunity (especially when invoked by non-LE bureaucrats to cover their non-urgent decisionmaking screwups), it’s currently the law. (That’s probably why the City of Uvalde got off for the relatively cheap sum of $2 million — for a case of this magnitude, that’s essentially a nuisance / PR settlement by its insurers.)

I suspect that there will be more than a bit of political pressure for the State of Texas to pay something, but from a hard-nosed litigation evaluation perspective, the case is anything but a slam dunk.

]]>