NYC Public Advocate Tish James and otherofficials argued in an amicus brief that a shooting victims» families should be able to sue Walmart in state court for negligence for selling handgun ammunition to a customer they charge was too young to legally buy it and visibly drunk.
What was about to be an extraordinarily briefpublic meeting of the state's top education officials at Walter L. Cohen High School became an unscripted dialogue about the transformation of that school and others into charters Wednesday evening.