The Connecticut Supreme Court is bypassing a lower court to hear an appeal from several families whose loved ones were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, and who are trying to sue the manufacturers of the gun used.
Tuesday’s decision by the high court comes two weeks after nine families of the victims and a survivor appealed a Superior Court judge’s dismissal of the case. In October, Fairfield District Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis granted motions from gun manufacturers Remington Arms Co. and Bushmaster Firearms to dismiss the complaint, which was attempting to hold them liable for the shooting that left 20 children and six educators dead.
