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TV: Other Shows: Uprising: Hip Hop & The L.A. Riots

Late in HBO’s recent documentary, There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane—about Diane Schuler, who killed herself and seven others while intoxicated and speeding in the wrong direction on New York’s Taconic State Parkway in 2009—director Liz Garbus makes the choice to linger on grisly images of a bloated, bloodied Schuler. Show More Summary

Horrific Bronx Zoo Car Crash Kills Three Generations of a Family

Post by Sasha Brown-Worsham Any time children are killed in a car crash, parents stand up and take notice, but certain ones really stick with you. There was the Diane Schuler crash in 2009, the Berry family crash last summer and nowShow More Summary

Diane Schuler and the Female DUI Epidemic

last yearHealth / Addiction : The Fix

What the ongoing obsession with Diane Schuler's bizarre and tragic death trip reveals about the soaring spike in drunk driving by American women.

Most popular Overlawyered posts of 2011

These are the posts last year that drew the biggest readership: “‘White shoe’ law firms” (on the origins of that footwear association); “‘Hot Coffee’ (HBO) documentary reviewed” “Diane Schuler’s husband suing state, brother-in-law over...Show More Summary

Female Drunk Driving Arrests Surge

last yearHealth / Addiction : The Fix

High profile cases like Diane Schuler are part of a trend of drunk driving arrests of relatively older and better educated women.

UPDATE 4: Diane Schuler (Reprint)

Editor’s Note: As was the case with the article entitled “Diane Schuler: An Interesting Perspective”, an excessive amount of comments about “UPDATE 4: Diane Schuler” has caused a conflict with our WordPress software. The result has been that the page will no longer load properly for most people. To bypass that annoying problem, I have [...]

Diane Schuler: An Interesting Perspective, Downloadable Version.

Ever since People You’ll See In Hell made it’s now infamous appearance in the HBO documentary, “There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane!”, the number of visits to the site, and the number of comments made to the five articles where Diane Schuler was the topic of discussion went through the roof. Our server has handled [...]

Report: Husband of wrong-way motorist who killed seven sues state, others

Here's your warning: this appears to be a case that will have people again howling for legal reform. According to USA Today, on July 26, 2009 Diane Schuler drove her minivan the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway in New York, eventually colliding head-on with an SUV. Show More Summary

Diane Schuler’s husband suing state, brother-in-law over wrong-way Taconic crash”

2 years agoIndustries / Law : Overlawyered

“Daniel Schuler, whose wife, Diane Schuler, killed herself and seven others in a wrong-way crash on the Taconic State Parkway is suing the state and his brother-in-law, whose three daughters were victims. Daniel Schuler filed a lawsuit Monday against the state in the New York Court of Claims, arguing that the highway was poorly designed [...]

Taconic Wrong-Way Driver's Widower Sues In-Law Whose Kids Died In Crash

Warren and Jackie Hance's three daughters were killed in 2009 when Warren's sister, Diane Schuler, drove a minivan for miles on the wrong side of the Taconic Parkway and slammed into another SUV. Besides the Hance girls, ages 5-8, Schuler...Show More Summary

UPDATE 4: Diane Schuler

HUSBAND OF DIANE SCHULER SUES NY STATE AND WARREN HANCE from the article by Susan Donaldson James – ABC News Diane Schuler was nearly perfect at everything she touched, until she drove the wrong way down New York’s Taconic State Parkway, slamming head-on into another vehicle and killing eight people, including her 2-year-old daughter, three [...]

Summer Doc Series: There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane

On a crisp day in 2009, following a beautiful vacation weekend in July, Diane Schuler drove her 1993 Windstar full of children going the wrong direction on the Taconic State Parkway in New York. She drove for 1.7 miles before the fatal crash that took her life, the lives of all but one of the [...]

UPDATE 2: Diane Schuler

DOMINIC BARBARA, LAWYER IN DIANE SCHULER CASE, LOSES LAW LICENSE IN BILLING FLAP from the article by Timothy O’Connor – Lower Hudson Valley.com The lawyer for the family of the wrong-way driver who killed herself and seven others in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway is going to lose his law license for 18 [...]

Outrage Over Film Deal For Taconic Wrong Way Driver's Family

Photograph of Diane Schuler with her husband Danny, son Bryan and daughter Erin Yesterday, the NY Post reported that a film production company had paid the family of Diane Schuler $100,000 "to exhume her body and test the remains toShow More Summary

Infamous LI Lawyer Arrested

Dominic Barbara, the flamboyant Long Island attorney who has represented Joey Buttafuoco, the guy who sued his wife for a kidney, and Diane Schuler's husband and is known for his appearances on the Howard Stern show, was arrested yesterday for allegedly violating an order of protection his ex-wife has against him. Show More Summary

Diane Schuler: An Interesting Perspective

When I first wrote up the Diane Schuler tragedy back in July of 2009, the facts were still coming in. I tried to keep every up to the minute with frequent updates, but it was impossible to catch every development when it happened. Fortunately for this website, one of our regulars, FuzzyWuzzy, became admittedly obsessed with [...]

Diane Schuler Taconic Crash Victims Suffered Terror, Pain: Lawsuit

3 years agoNews : Huffington Post

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Two victims of the wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway suffered terror and pain before they died, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit by the family of victims Michael and Guy Bastardi targets the estate of Diane Schuler, the 36-year-old Long Island mother who was blamed for the July 26 crash. Show More Summary

Diane Schuler's Story Is One Of Isolation, Denial, And Rage [Mad Madd World]

One of the saddest news stories of the summer just got sadder — the husband of Diane Schuler, whose wrong-way drunk-driving crash killed her and seven others, tells New York Magazine he still believes his wife was essentially perfect. Show More Summary

Taconic Parkway Crash Mom’s Remains Finally to Be Retested

After Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway and killed eight people because — according to the Westchester medical examiner — she was drunk and high, her husband and family vowed to clear her name. “She wasn’t an alcoholic,” her husband Danny Schuler says. Show More Summary

Carmen Huertas

You would think that after the Diane Schuler tragedy people would have learned to a. not fill a vehicle up with children and drive while intoxicated and b. not stand by and let someone else fill up a car with children and drive while intoxicated. That’s what you would think, anyway. Sadly, I have to report [...]

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