Virginia's Supreme Court on Oct. 31 overturned a jury decision that found Virginia Tech University negligent in the 2007 massacre at the school in which 32 people were killed.
A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury found last year that the state university had been slow to issue a campus warning as the shooting spree unfolded.
The trial judge had instructed the jury that there was “special relationship” between the school and slain students Julia Pryde and Erin Peterson, since the women were “business invitees” of the university. The women's families filed the wrongful death lawsuit.
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