Judges and Judiciary
May 14, 2005
Jury Gives $700,000 to Teen Blinded by Shot
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $700,000 in damages to a 14-year-old boy blinded by a Southern California Edison employee who shot him in the eye with a paintball gun.
Lawyers for Joshua Hild, a resident of the Edison company town of Big Creek in the Sierra National Forest about 45 miles outside Fresno, also alleged the company destroyed the employee's handwritte...
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