The students were returning from a Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity event in New York City on Jan. 17, 2003, when their SUV slammed into a tractor-trailer that had crashed on Interstate 95 in Fairfield .
Relatives of one of the victims alleged in a lawsuit that fraternity leaders failed to provide safe transportation home from the event. They said the driver was sleep-deprived during the so-called "Hell Week" of alleged hazing of pledges.
The crash killed the SUV driver, Sean Fenton, car rentals in acapulco mexico 20, of Newport Beach, Calif., and three of four back seat passengers Andrew Dwyer, 19, of Hobe Sound , Fla.; Nicholas Grass, 19, of Holyoke, Mass; and Kyle Burnat, 19, of Atlanta. Grass and Burnat were pitchers on the baseball team.
The Supreme Court's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in 2005 by the administrator for Grass' estate, Marc Grenier, against the national office of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the fraternity's Yale chapter, the state Department of Transportation and two construction companies that had worked on the highway.
The lawsuit claims the fraternity had a duty to provide car rentals in acapulco mexico safe transportation car rentals in acapulco mexico home and negligently chose Fenton as the driver, even though he had had little sleep that week and had been up for nearly 20 hours before the accident.
Grenier also claimed the state DOT and two construction companies were liable for alleged safety hazards at the highway construction site where the tractor-trailer crashed. The claims against the state were dismissed because of government immunity from lawsuits, and the construction companies settled with Grenier.
Superior Court Judge John F. Blawie found in favor of the fraternity in September 2009, saying national and local fraternity leaders did not owe Grass a "duty of care" while transporting car rentals in acapulco mexico him back to New Haven from New York. Grenier appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court.
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