In 2002, a gravel truck driver killed four members of a North Texas family in Wise County when he collided with their vehicle. In a civil trial, the family's survivors were awarded $15.8 million dollars. The Texas Supreme Court has thrown out the verdict, because the lawyers brought up that the driver was an illegal alien.
The justices said that was an attempt to inflame jurors' passions against the driver and TXI Transportation, the company that hired him to drive the truck. Well, somebody's passions need to be inflamed! How long are we going to let these people ruin the lives of law-abiding citizens? And I'm not just talking about the illegals here -- these judges bear responsibility, too.
"$15.8M judgment in crash tossed." The Dallas Morning News; March 13, 2010; p. 3A.
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