There are lawyers and liars, and then there's Remington Arms, the company that made and marketed the Bushmaster assault rifle. Shooter Adam Lanza used one when he murdered 20 children and 6 adults at an elementary school in Newtown, CT, in 2012.
Remington Arms has responded to a 2014 civil lawsuit filed by Sandy Hook parents with an array of delaying tactics -- pushing to have the lawsuit blocked all the way to the Supreme Court in 2019, and then declaring bankruptcy to try to escape financial responsibility for the massacre.
Now, Remington is trying to bury the opposition in paper.
On Thursday, Sandy Hook lawyers filed a motion describing what Remington Arms had sent them as evidence in the discovery phase of the trial: 6600 useful documents that barely scratched the surface of what the plaintiffs had asked, along with literally thousands of graphics and files with no relevance to the case whatsoever.
“[Remington repeatedly said] that their document productions were ‘substantially complete’ and represented that there was great ‘substance and breadth’ to those productions [but] the truth is there for all to see,” the motion read. The document then included three fuzzy images of a bowl of ice cream, Santa Claus, and a weightlifter.
“There are 18,459 more images such as these in Remington’s document production,” the filing continues. “There are also another 15,825 image files of people gokarting, riding dirt bikes, and socializing, [and] another 1,521 video files of gender reveal parties and the ice bucket challenge, not to mention multiple duplicate copies of Remington catalogues.”
What was missing? Marketing department records. There were some 2,100 emails from a span of seven years “for a company that employed more than 30 marketing personnel in 2010 alone,” the filing says. Given that alleged marketing misdeeds are a large part of the lawsuit, the evidence supplied is scant.
Said lead attorney Josh Koskoff, “The last thing Remington wants is for us to get the information that these families deserve ... [Remington is] worried about the truth. That’s the only conclusion you can draw.”
We hope that the judge will find Remington in contempt of court and fine them a few tens of thousands of dollars.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/remington-sandy-hook-cartoons-court-documents-lawsuit_n_60e72adbe4b01d28533e7e3a?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation
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