A state judge has ruled that the parents of two girls killed in a 2003 car crash cannot sue their school district for libel over articles in a school newspaper. The judge rejected an argument by the parents that their claim only accrued in June 2008, the date they claimed they first discovered the articles online, holding that the dates the articles were published, 2004 and 2007, triggered the applicable deadlines.
December 03, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The parents of two Long Island high school girls killed in a 2003 car crash cannot sue their school district for libel over articles in a school newspaper about the dangers of drinking and driving that they claimed falsely implied their daughters had been drinking, a state judge has ruled.
In December 2003, Alison Reilly and Christina Caroleo, both 15, were passengers in an SUV driven by then-18-year-old Omar Afzal, who lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree in Nassau County.
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