A Michigan judge has ruled the Oxford school district and its employees are immune from civil lawsuits stemming from the 2021 shooting where a 15-year-old student killed four classmates and injured seven other people.
Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Mary Ellen Brennan on Friday cited government immunity in her order dismissing more than half a dozen Oxford High School staffers and the Oxford Community School District from a negligence complaint brought by survivors and families of the deceased, who argued that warning signs of the impending shooting were ignored by staff and parents. That leaves only the Crumbleys — shooter Ethan and his parents, James and Jennifer — as defendants in the complaint.
“How is this fair that a parent of a kid who attends a private school would have a cause of action and because our kids went to a public school, they don’t?” Johnson said Saturday. In Michigan, the bar is high for plaintiffs who sue government workers such as public school staffers: They not only have to prove “gross negligence” but that employees’ behavior was “the” proximate cause of injury.
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