BREAKING NEWS: Soo Hyeon Park lawsuit against the Village to proceed

BREAKING NEWS:   Soo Hyeon Park lawsuit against the Village to proceed

the Staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ- A Bergen County Superior Court judge on Friday has tossed out the Village of  Ridgewood's motion for summery judgement in the case of the 13 year old boy Soo Hyeon Park who drowned at Graydon pool in the 2008 .In laymen's terms the judge denied the Village's motion to dismiss the case.

The judge also ruled against the Village's "third party actions filed against against the parents of a 13-year-old Korean boy who drowned at Graydon Pool during that summer and the boys two teenage friends and their parents, all Ridgewood residents , as members of Graydon Pool. With the Villages motions now thrown out the case is now set to proceed .

The case has been unusually long due to the complexity and depth or issues at play.

Sources close to the case have also made it clear that they are in no way aliened with any of the parties involved in either the "Action Park "or Preserve Historical Graydon groups and that their duty is to represent the plaintiffs in their lawsuit against the Village. This action  in no way should be misrepresented by either group or any particular person as meaningful to their cause. Sources close to the case reiterated that ," a new pool not my cause".

In an event that shocked the entire town Soo Hyeon Park died tragically on July 15, 2008. Park drowned in the deep end of Graydon pool. The boy’s family filed a complaint with Bergen County Superior Court on Feb. 19, 2009, claiming the village was negligent in the drowning ,seeking "pecuniary damages and losses." The Village  responded by filing a "third party action"  on Feb. 3rd . The complaint "alleged negligence" against the boy’s parents, Youn Wha Jung and Seong Wook Park and the boys two teenage friends and their parents.

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