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AXiDTrish,
That's totally where I was headed w/ my post. But then I realized, she's probably suing Sigma Nu b/c they've got the deep pockets. It's about negligence -- was Sigma Nu, the university, et. al. responsible for his death as the host of the event, and if so, what percentage?
I think we tend to think of these lawsuits from the perspective of the chapter being responsible for under-age drinking or hazing or whatever, mostly b/c that's the only kind of lawsuits we see. It is very interesting that she's trying to sue from a different angle.
That's why I wonder if the mom would still be suing if he died after a night out at the bar or a night out w/ his friends.
This quote sums it up the best, I think:
Phillips said Broadhead's mother filed the lawsuit after Broadhead's younger brother questioned her about his brother's death.
"If I do nothing," Phillips quoted Covert as saying, "it's like me saying to my younger son, 'This is OK.' But what happened to Sammy is not OK. What young people face today on college campuses is not OK. If I don't do something to help change this, who will?"
Funny, I didn't know that alumni suddenly became college students again once they set foot on campus.
This man was obviously an active alumni -- I wonder how he would feel if he knew his mom had initiated this lawsuit?
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