Re: Pushing negligence a bit?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:46:23 -0800, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" said:
> A New York court has held that a four-year-old can be sued for negligence causing 
> death.

Note that what the court actually ruled was:

1) The case isn't being tossed out because the person is trying to sue a ham
sandwich - those are usually indictable, but not suable. ;)

2) The question to be decided is "Can a 4 year old understand the concept
'Running into people with your bike is a Bad Thing'"?  And it's not totally
obvious on the face of it that a 4 year old *can't* understand that.

The part I'm trying to figure out is why they're naming the 4 year old as one
of the defendants - the kid is probably pretty judgement-proof at that age,
with usually no assets and not even a *prospect* of assets till they're old
enough to get a job.  There's obviously more to it than the news has reported
so far.

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