New York Judge rules 6-year-old can be sued

[ShoxFan963]

A girl can be sued over accusations she ran over an elderly woman with her training bicycle when she was 4 years old, a New York Supreme Court justice has ruled.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A03RY20101101

What is America coming to anymore to hold a 4 year old responsible for this?

[Aargh]

Wow! I read the article and it didn't turn out at all the way I thought.

Anybody has always been free to sue a 6-year-old. Generally a jury will shake their heads all the way to the jury room and have a verdict in about 5 seconds.

There's a little catch - you can't collect until the child is 18 and then you generally have to sue again to enforce collection, so it's usually pointless to sue a child.

I thought this was going to be a ruling where the child could be sued, but not the parents. Parents can be successfully sued if they failed to exercise reasonable care and supervision to prevent a forseeable incident.

In this case the judge ruled the parents can be sued too. I'm confident a jury wll laugh this one out of court, but the judges ruling eliminates the possibility of bringing a frivolous lawsuit counterclaim, which is a shame.

[WuDrWu]

What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

[Aargh]

What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

A good start?