Legal Opinion
Shoels v. Klebold
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 21, 2004No. 03-1295PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
Five years after the tragedy at Columbine High School, we are called to determine whether the district court rightly put to rest a lawsuit between Michael and Vonda Shoels, whose son Isaiah was killed at Columbine, and the parents of the two shooters. Over strenuous objection, the district court found that the Shoels, through counsel, had entered a binding agreement to settle their claims in April of 2001. Because the Shoels have provided us with no reason to think that the district court’s factual findings were clearly erroneous, we affirm the order of the district…
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