Families of victims of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School rebuked Remington on Wednesday for leaving them off of its chapter 11 bankruptcy creditors list, saying that damages they are seeking in litigation should be included, Law360 reported. The families told an Alabama federal bankruptcy court that the potential damages from their wrongful death suit against Remington Arms Co. LLC would "dwarf" the other claims of the company's top 40 creditors and that there is "no justification" for them not to be included on the list. "After six years of nationally significant litigation, it is simply not plausible that the debtors did not realize that the Sandy Hook families should have been included as top 40 unsecured creditors," the families said, adding that the omission is "glaring" considering the fact the families were included on the list when the company filed for bankruptcy in 2018. In light of the omission, the families urged the bankruptcy court to hold an emergency status conference, arguing that they would be irreparably harmed if they are not included on the list because they would be unable to participate in hearings and would not be considered for the unsecured creditors' committee.
