There's one thing I've learned about these litigation cases.  Unless we
ourselves read the transcripts or sat in courtroom, we don't have even a
good part of story.
Remember the McDonald's and the hot coffee incident.  What most main stream
stories didn't tell was that McDonald's had been warned before that their
coffee was being kept much hotter than you normally find coffee kept at and
that the women sustained third degree burns on a significant portion of her
legs.  Puts it in a little better perspective?
We don't know what else this kid did to whom maybe others, what the adults
around him did, etc.  The fact is if he had been an adult and had slammed
another adult into the wall he would have been jailed for assault.
Food for thought.


Beth the OT from the Hemingway school of email writing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Sandy Goodwick
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Teen with cerebral palsy awarded $300,000
>
>
> The purpose of litigation as I (a non lawyer) see it is the
> following - the
> settlement sends the message that injustice occurred.  The money is the
> symbolic "owning up" and righting the wrong.
>