DOVER, Del. (AP) - Delaware’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by the parents of a University of Delaware student who was hit and killed by a car after staggering away from an off-campus sorority party while severely drunk.
The court issued a two-paragraph order Wednesday upholding a judge’s ruling in a lawsuit filed by the parents of Ethan Connolly of Medway, Massachusetts. The 19-year-old Connolly was hit by a car in October 2013 while crossing a darkened highway.
Connolly’s parents sued the university, the sorority, a caterer and a labor union that owns the facility where the party was held.
A Superior Court judge ruled earlier this year that none of the defendants was liable, and that Connolly, who had been drinking before the party, was responsible for his own death.
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