my son of nine years was hit and killed in 1993 by a woman driving a company van. the courts awarded a judgement in 2003 for a sum of 500.000 dollars. the judgement has never been paid. I believe if my son was white this would not be. A little white girl hanged her hand out of a window on a streetcar and was awarded millions shortly afterwards. I believe my civil rights are being violated and this case does not matter to anyone because it was just a black kid killed. I could better explain this if someone would just talk to me. 13 years and the pain is hard to this day. I can't put closure to my baby's death until this case is paid off. It is all that can be done, they can't give me my baby back but at least they can pay the consequences for their action. The driver of the van don't care to this day. She is a black lady. If she would have killed a white kid she would have been made to pay and the company too. please someone help me. Listen to my story.
2006-12-27 04:19:33 · 5 answers · asked by Lenab 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
There are people everyday who go through what you are going through. While I'm sorry for your loss, I can't believe you feel you have to make this a race issue. Millions of people of all races have been awarded judgements and not recieved any money. Maybe you should concentrate more about what happened than what color you are?
2006-12-27 04:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Racial healing requires special care that courts cannot provide. Please contact the Center for the Healing of Racism for help and support in this area. http://www.centerhealingracism.org
For the legal and settlement issue, I would contact another law firm for mediation or further court action, the company, the lady's church, or even the local newspaper to do a press conference. If she doesn't have the money, maybe the church would help raise money to help your family recover from your loss.
But you have to choose which route you wish to take. If you want to get racial and political, and use public pressure, you would have to contact NAACP or ACLU or victims' rights' groups for a press conference. I don't prefer this choice, but it works for some cases if it is done correctly. Even making it a bad PR issue for the company is another angle.
If you want positive support to resolve this issue and heal of it, without being confrontational, I would suggest mediation and consultation with local church or community organizations.
However, once you do the political controversial approach, you shut the door on an amicable approach. So I suggest seeking that first through church or community help, and only do the other as a last resort if no other help is available.
2006-12-27 14:16:05 · answer #2 · answered by emilynghiem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have some powerful legal tools at your disposal to collect your judgment. In fact, you can file a suit for specific performance of payment and the court can actually increase the amount owed to you due to delinquency, however, this takes a long time and results in a protracted legal process. Your best bet is to contact a judgment collection agency. It's your right to assign ownership of your judgment to a 3rd party collections agency, and in return, they'll compensate you with some discounted value of the judgment. You won't end up with the whole $500,000, but you probably will get about half.
2006-12-27 13:33:29 · answer #3 · answered by robcarbone2002 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does it have to be about race, there are tons of people who have never collected their judgements just ebcause it can take a long time and sometimes it never happens.
2006-12-27 12:25:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don.t believe your sob story. i collect judgments and i get half. do you want fifty % of something or100% of nothing...MAN UP!!!!!!!
2006-12-27 16:19:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋