Attorney Kristina Infante is leading an unusual and foundational “simple negligence lawsuit” against the U.S. government on behalf of the parents of Jaime Guttenberg, one of 17 people killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. The suit seeks to hold the government accountable for the FBI call center’s administrative failure to forward crucial tips about the shooter to local South Florida agents weeks before the tragedy. Infante, a lawyer at Podhurst Orseck, is actively battling immunity claims and is pushing for discovery material to prove that these procedural errors—not investigative failures—were responsible for preventing agents from acting. She believes a ruling holding the government responsible for simple employee negligence, similar to the 2015 Charleston church shooting case, is necessary to establish accountability for law enforcement agencies.
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Originally published by Mary Smith Judd | 2020 | Law360
