We have a case where the father of four children rear-ended someone at low speed while in stop and go traffic on the freeway. His really cheaply made and poorly designed Isuzu truck gave in on him and though he wasn’t hurt badly from the impact, his legs got stuck under the dash and the rescue workers couldn’t get him out. Meanwhile, the horribly designed and dangerous engine compartment sprung a fire which quickly jumped through to our client burning him severely. He survived a couple months and had more than a dozen amputations before dying and is survived by our four clients. That’s the sad part.

We brought in trial expert Jim Hoey to take on Isuzu needing a real heavyweight. Jim, however, also figured out that the vehicle our client rear ended, which was a 20 year old trailer, didn’t have the under-ride safety bar at the right height. After a long fought battle and beating off a motion for summary judgment, Jim brought in $550.000 against the vehicle which our client rear ended!

Congratulations Jim! Now let’s get Isuzu!

Monday, a Victorville jury awarded 241K in damages for a first grade student finding the principal and administrator of Del Rey Elementary School in the Victor Valley School District negligent in providing for his safety. The plaintiff alleged that while a first grader at Del Rey Elementary School in the 2004-2005 school year, he was subjected to an escalated pattern of bullying and violence which ultimately led to his sexual assault in a bathroom by older students. Plaintiff attorney Brian Hannemann of the Law Offices of Marc Grossman in Upland, California, argued that the principal and administrator were aware of the bullying but did nothing about it. Lawyers for the school district argued that the incident never occurred and that even if it had, they had done nothing wrong. School district attorneys asked the jury to find the 6 year old plaintiff contributorily negligent for wandering into the older student’s bathroom and also argued that he suffered no injury at all. The jury disagreed and concluded that the plaintiff was sexually assaulted while a first grade student at Del Rey. They found principal Christa Robinson and administrator Deborah Orchard were negligent in providing for the plaintiff’s safety and that they were a substantial factor in causing the sexual assault.
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This sort of trouble is not new to Del Rey Elementary School. In January 2007, 45 different parents filed complaints alleging years of sexual abuse of students by teacher Rogelio Cardenas. Cardenas eventually plead no contest to the continuous sexual abuse of a child and is now serving a 10 year prison sentence. Attorney Marc Grossman calls the district’s tactics in this case an “abuse of public trust” and “waste of tax payer dollars”. Grossman, who also represented several of the Cardenas victims in recently settled lawsuits, notes that in 6 years of litigation, the defense never made any offer whatsoever and chose to hide behind a blanket of deceit and false accusations directed at a 6 year old sexual assault victim and his family.

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Finally, after 6 years, at least there’s someone listening. We just finished day four of trial for a 6 year old who was bullied and ultimately molested by older kids while the school principal laughed at the mom calling her a fat bitch. My client is so poor, that if the district had ever offered anything to this impoverished child, they would have probably had to take it. Did I mention that it was the 2004 school year when my 6 year old client was molested. Yes, the attorneys for the Victorvile Elementary School District have made a career for themselves and no doubt charged the tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars to accuse a 6 y ear old molestation victim and his mother of lying for profit. Even though Victorville juries are notoriously conservative and no one likes to award damages against a school, I think they get it. The district spent years trying to deprive a jury of the right to weigh the facts and it should all backfire on them. It is disgusting the way they attack the victims to try to get them to give up their rights. It is just another form of bullying. As for the ridiculous allegation that we are all just fabricating this for profit, due to the unethical churning of the defense lawyers, it is well beyond any possibility that no matter how this turns out that we will make any money on it. What is the cost for one dollar of justice in the face of an unethical school district and their attorneys? If all goes well in this case, perhaps ten, maybe more. What the jury won’t be hearing about the principal and the defendant school is that at the same time as this 6 year old was being bullied and molested by older bullies, about 14 of his classmates were molested by their teacher, Rogelio Cardenas, who is now rotting in prison. Because the jury won’t ever get to hear about how the district turned their back on those kids, they seem to think it’s just fine to try to perpetuate this myth that we are all fabricating this for profit. How do people get so jaded to not only fight against justice but to fight against justice for a six year old bullying victim by attacking him and his family. Let’s hope the jury gets this one right.

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