更新：此故事现在包括解雇关于两名被告被指控在一氧化碳死亡中犯罪疏忽的案件的信息。

On November 2, a federal judge dismissed a negligence claim against Colorado’s Pitkin County that had been filed by relatives of a family of four who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in late November 2008. A day later, a Pitkin County District judge, citing an expired statute of limitations, dismissed cases against two contractors who had been indicted on charges of criminally negligent homicide in the poisoning deaths.

案件解雇了意外，惊人的一些法律行动，虽然已故家族的亲属发誓要追求其他法律补救办法。

The source of the gas was a leak in a Munchkin boiler, which in 2005 had been installed in an Aspen-area home as part of its snowmelt system. The family members, who lived in Denver, had won a stay at the home through a school-sponsored auction, and timed their stay to coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday.

这座建筑被布莱恩·卡爪和检查Erik Peltonen, who were named in the negligence suit against the county along with its community development department and board of commissioners. In 2006, the county issued a certificate of occupancy for the home, which was not equipped with a carbon monoxide detector at the time the family occupied the house.

Despite the judge’s dismissal of the claim against the county, however, the now-retired Peltonen, along with the subcontractor who installed the boiler, Marlin Brown, had still faced separate jury trials in the coming weeks, each on four counts of criminally negligent homicide pegged to the deaths of Caroline Lofgren, 42, her husband, Parker, 39, and their two children, Owen, 10, and Sophie, 8.

家庭的亲属对解雇表示失望。

“These dismissals do not indicate innocence. Four people died,” Massachusetts resident Hildy Feuerbach, the sister of the deceased mother, told the白杨时代. Feuerbach had flown into Aspen to attend the proceedings and said later that she and other relatives will continue to press on to find out who was responsible for the deaths..

布朗的审判计划于11月28日开始于11月28日开始，而Peltonen则计划于12月。

民事声称，解雇运动

虽然县，佩尔顿和爪子被驳回了联邦法院的一个民事疏忽索赔，但在国家法院必须解决的同一诉讼中仍然存在七个其他疏忽。在这七名索赔中命名的被告包括布朗，建筑管理公司，一个卫生间储备专家，当时拥有房屋的开发集团，以及基于马萨诸塞州的传热产品，该产品在2011年1月到2011年1月制造了Munchkin锅炉，当时停产。

8月，佩尔托伦和棕色的律师已经提出了刑事指控的动作，以至于对收费限制的三年法规已过期，这是白杨时代story noted. And a friend-of-the-court brief by Pitkin County, the city of Aspen, the International Code Council, and the Colorado Municipal League argued that because the county’s implementation of a building code is voluntary, its adoption by the county shielded Peltonen and Brown from criminal liability.

另外，作为白杨时代pointed out in a story published on September 30, Peltonen’s attorney had argued that a Pitkin County ordinance in 2004 that included adoption of the 2003 International Building Code, the 2003 International Mechanical Code, and the 2003 International Residential Code also protects county inspectors from civil liability – which, the attorney argued, would also shield them from criminal prosecution.