Va. Supreme Court declines to rehear Virginia Tech shooting case
Source: Roanoke Times
On Tuesday the Virginia Supreme Court refused to reconsider whether Virginia Tech officials, and therefore the state, was negligent in handling the April 16, 2007, campus shootings, according to an attorney in the case.
The ruling effectively ends the case in the state court system. Plaintiff’s attorney Bob Hall said he would release a statement later in the afternoon.
On Halloween, seven of the court’s justices overturned a combined $8 million jury award for the plaintiffs that was handed down by a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury in 2012. The plaintiffs -- the parents of slain Tech students Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde -- had filed a petition asking the high court to reconsider its ruling. Today the court denied the request, Hall wrote in an email. The order had not been entered on the Supreme Court’s website by lunchtime
In 2012, the circuit court jury found in favor of the plaintiffs, ruling that Tech officials were negligent for failing to warn the campus of a shooter on the loose after a fatal early morning shooting in a dormitory room on April 16.
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