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Fairfield Crash Injures Nine Students

Hi, I’m Ed Smith, a Fairfield personal injury attorney. On the morning of Friday, September 9, 2016, nine students in Fairfield were injured when a forty-year-old male and member of the Solano Community College staff drove his vehicle off of the road, through a stretch of grass, and into a portable building in which a group of math students were taking a test. The vehicle, a black Acura SUV, crashed clear through the wall of the building, knocked over many desks and students, and stopped just before colliding with the wall on the other side.

Both the United States Constitution and the California Constitution provide that we all have a right to privacy, something that we all hold sacred.  There are times when an individual’s privacy is challenged or invaded.  For example, injured individuals filing personal injury lawsuits may feel their lives are open books once they file a complaint in court.  While it is certainly true that plaintiffs’ lives do become a little bit more open to scrutiny, there are still limitations on what defendants can discover about an injured party.

Often, defendants seek to find out much more than they are allowed to by prying into a plaintiff’s past.  Defendants want to find anything they can to show that a plaintiff is not injured by the defendant’s conduct.  This is particularly true in situations where a plaintiff may have been treated for a mental condition in the past.  Defendants wish to blame a plaintiff’s injuries not on what allegedly occurred in the plaintiff’s lawsuit, but on something that happened in the past that has absolutely nothing to do with the alleged injuries suffered by the plaintiff.  For example, defendants may wish to assert that “alternative stressors,” such as a mental health condition are the reason for the plaintiff’s suffering – not the defendant’s conduct as alleged by the plaintiff.

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