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FILE - Parkland shooting victim Anthony Borges sits at his attorney's office in Wilton Manors, Fla., on June 26, 2024. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, file)

Families settle court battle over who owns Parkland killer’s name and likeness

A nasty legal rift between the most seriously wounded survivor of the 2018 Parkland high school massacre and the families of some of the 17 murdered victims has been settled.

Former circuit judge Elizabeth Scherer speaks, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Miami, to Florida International University law students about overseeing the trial of the shooter who murdered 17 at Parkland, Fla.'s, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Parkland shooting judge criticizes shooter’s attorneys during talk to law students

Anthony Borges listens to testimony in Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips' courtroom on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Broward County, Fla. Borges was shot five times in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day 2018. The families of the Parkland victims are in court to debate whether one plaintiff, the family of Anthony Borges, has the right to unilaterally negotiate a settlement entitling him to the rights to Nikolas Cruz's name and inheritance. (Mike Stocker /South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Rift between Parkland massacre survivor and some families of the dead erupts in court

FILE - Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooter opened fire on the campus on Feb. 14, 2018. Seventeen students and staff were killed in the attack. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Parents of 3 students who died in Parkland massacre, survivor reach large settlement with shooter

In this photo provided by the Broward County Sheriff's Office on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, Sheriff Scott Israel, holds the hand of Anthony Borges, 15, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Borges, the most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz's name and Cruz cannot give any interviews without his permission, under a settlement reached in a lawsuit, his attorney said Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Broward County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Survivor of Parkland school massacre wins ownership of shooter’s name in lawsuit settlement

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FILE - Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson sits at the defense table during his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, June 23, 2023. A lawsuit filed by the families of the 17 killed in the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school massacre and survivors against Peterson, who was on campus, can go forward, Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips ruled Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, rejecting his motion to dismiss the case before trial. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

Judge: Lawsuit against Parkland school deputy over 2018 massacre can go to trial

Andrew Pollack, right, and Gena and Tom Hoyer attend a hearing at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Hoyer's son, Luke, and Pollack's daughter, Meadow, were killed in the 2018 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Florida deputy’s legal team says he didn’t have an obligation to stop Parkland school shooter

U.S. Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., left, speaks with the news media before a tour of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, in Parkland, Fla. Fourteen students and three staff members were fatally shot at the school in 2018. At right is Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., right. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Years after Parkland massacre, tour freshens violence for group of House lawmakers

FILE - A security agent walks alongside a barrier surrounding Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, July 5, 2023, in Parkland, Fla. Florida lawmakers and others on Saturday, Oct. 14, toured the school's 1200 Building, where a former student shot 17 people to death and wounded 17 others on Valentine's Day in 2018. The local school district has announced the 1200 Building will be demolished during the summer of 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Stoneman Douglas High shooting site visited one last time by lawmakers and educators

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FILE - The 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is seen, Oct. 20, 2021. The school building where 14 students and three staff members were fatally shot in a 2018 massacre is set to be demolished next summer, officials announced Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. The demolition of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s 1200 building, which has remained closed and locked behind a fence since the shooting, is scheduled to take place immediately following the conclusion of the school year. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

The building where the Parkland school massacre occurred is set to be demolished next summer

Nine members of Congress wait to enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Parkland, Fla. The group will tour the blood-stained and bullet-pocked halls, shortly before ballistics technicians reenact the massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead in 2018. The reenactment is part of a lawsuit filed by the victims' families against former Deputy Scot Peterson and the Broward Sheriff's Office. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Shots again fired at site of Parkland school massacre in reenactment after lawmakers visit

FILE - People comfort each other as they sit and mourn at one of seventeen crosses, Feb. 15, 2018, after a candlelight vigil for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. A reenactment of the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead, 17 wounded and hundreds emotionally traumatized, is scheduled to be conducted Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, as part of lawsuits filed by the victims' families and the injured. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Reenactment of Florida school massacre will bring gunfire back to Parkland campus

FILE - Florida Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sentences Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Nov. 2, 2022. Cruz was formally sentenced to life in prison for murdering 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. A state commission concluded Monday, June 5, 2023, that Scherer, should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at his attorneys by the victims' families and sometimes “allowed her emotions to overcome her judgement.” (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

Florida Supreme Court reprimands judge for conduct during Parkland school shooting trial

FILE- A memorial is made outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla, Feb. 19, 2018. The re-enactment of the shooting at the school will take place early Aug. 2023, as part of a civil lawsuit and will use live ammunition. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Florida school shooting reenactment set for Aug. 4 using live ammunition, judge told

FILE - A student arrives for school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the one-year anniversary of the school shooting, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Parkland, Fla. The 2018 Parkland high school massacre will be reenacted with the firing of about 140 blanks on campus as part of families' lawsuits against the former sheriff's deputy they accuse of failing to stop the gunman, a judge ruled Wednesday, July 12, 2023. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

Reenactment of Parkland school massacre on campus will be allowed as part of lawsuit against deputy

Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson reacts as he is found not guilty on all charges at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Peterson was acquitted of child neglect and other charges for failing to act during the Parkland school massacre, where 14 students and three staff members were murdered. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Deputy’s acquittal in Parkland school massacre case shows holes in the law, attorneys say

Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson reacts as he is found not guilty on all charges at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Peterson was acquitted of child neglect and other charges for failing to act during the Parkland school massacre, where 14 students and three staff members were murdered. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Deputy acquitted of all charges for failing to act during deadly Parkland school shooting

Former MSD School Resource Officer Scot Peterson sits at the defense table during closing arguments in his trial, Monday, June 26, 2023, at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Peterson is accused of failing to confront the shooter who murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland high school five years ago. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Prosecutor: Deputy fled during Parkland school massacre, putting own life ahead of students’

Broward Sheriff's Office communications operator Samantha Oakley testifies during the trial of former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, June 23, 2023. Broward County prosecutors charged Peterson, a former Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, with criminal charges for failing to enter the 1200 Building at the school and confront the shooter as he perpetuated the Valentine's Day 2018 Massacre that left 17 dead and 17 injured. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Dispatcher testifies that failing radios hampered deputies’ response to Parkland school massacre

Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson sits at the defense table during his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Broward County prosecutors charged Peterson, a former Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, with criminal charges for failing to enter the 1200 Building at the school and confront the shooter as he perpetuated the Valentine's Day 2018 mass shooting there. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Witnesses to Parkland massacre describe their confusion in pinpointing gunshots’ location

Broward Sheriff's Office Detective John Curcio becomes emotional while testifying during the trial of former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Broward County prosecutors charged Peterson, a former Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, with criminal charges for failing to enter the 1200 Building at the school and confront the shooter. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Homicide detective weeps in trial of deputy who failed to confront Parkland high school shooter

Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson is shown at the defense table during his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Broward County prosecutors charged Peterson, a former Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, with criminal charges for failing to enter the 1200 Building at the school and confront the shooter as he perpetuated the Valentine's Day 2018 Massacre that left 17 dead and 17 injured. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Deputy at Parkland shooting would have seen bodies if he opened door, officer testifies

Broward Sheriff's Office Lt. Col. Samuel Samaroo (cq) stands and identifies the various tools on his gun belt while testifying during the trial of former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Broward County prosecutors charged Peterson, a former Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, with criminal charges for failing to enter the 1200 Building at the school and confront the shooter as he perpetuated the Valentine's Day 2018 Massacre that left 17 dead and 17 injured. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

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