RICHMOND, Va. AP – Nearly 50 notices of possible lawsuits over the mass killings at Virginia Tech have been filed with the state.

A spokesman for the Virginia attorney general’s office, Tucker Martin, said in an e-mail Thursday that 48 notices were filed by Wednesday’s deadline. A notice of intent to file suit was required within one year of the slayings of 32 people on April 16, 2007, by a mentally disturbed student.