Geoffrey Fieger and parents Jeff and Brandy Franz (Photo: Rebecca Cook)
Parents Jeff and Brandy Franz (Photo: Rebecca Cook)
Lawyers suing the Oxford Community School District say administrators are destroying social media pages and other potential evidence.
"Not only did defendants fail to take necessary steps to preserve the evidence, but they willfully destructed the evidence by deleting the webpages," a court document filed Friday says.
Hours later, U.S. District Judge Terrence Berg ordered school officials to preserve "all electronically stored evidence" relating to the case.
Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger on Thursday sued on behalf of sisters Riley Franz, 17, an Oxford High School senior recovering from a neck wound and Bella Franz, 14, who witnessed the shooting Nov. 30.
Friday's filing by attorney Nora Hanna, a Fieger associate, says Dean of Students Ryan Moore's LinkedIn page was deleted.
Separately, Timothy J. Mullins of Troy, an attorney for the school district, has sent a letter to Fieger demanding he remove allegations in lawsuit involving a school employee who hasn't worked for the district in more than a year, The Detroit News reports:
In a Friday night statement from the school district, Mullins said the lawsuits were "bombastic stunts masked as legal filings" that "do a disservice to the people of Oxford and the people of Michigan."
"These latest false allegations are baseless, reckless and totally irresponsible," Mullins said in a statement to The News. "Mr. Fieger has named the wrong person in his sloppy legal filings and is refusing to retract his statements and dismiss him immediately, which is unconscionable.
"School employees continue to receive death threats, and Mr. Fieger is throwing gasoline on the fire with his shameless, callous and irresponsible tactics and angry rhetoric.”
