>All parties seeking dismissal of charges in Graydon Pool lawsuit
Friday, March 25, 2011
BY MICHAEL SEDON
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
STAFF WRITER
A web of litigation is still in Bergen County Superior Court relating to the 2008 drowning death of a 14-year-old boy at Graydon Pool.
“All the parties — Ridgewood, the Park family as third-party defendants and the Kim family as third-party defendants — have all filed motions to dismiss” all charges in the matter, said Neil S. Weiner, the Park family’s legal counsel. “A decision won’t be forthcoming until at least a couple of weeks, perhaps longer.”
Soo Hyeon Park, 14, drowned at Graydon Pool on July 15, 2008. The Park family was guests of the Kim family, who recently moved to Ridgewood at that time, and had joined Graydon Pool for the first year, according to the “factual and procedural history,” contained in court documents.
Initially, attorneys representing Park’s family filed an intent to sue, providing the village with notice that they intended to seek damages of up to $30 million. The boy’s family then filed a complaint in Bergen County Superior Court on Feb. 19, 2009, claiming the village was negligent in the drowning and sought judgment for “damages, punitive damages, interest, cost of suit and other such relief as the court deems proper,” according to the complaint.
