MGM Resorts Sues Victims of Las Vegas Mass Shooting

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mgm-resorts-sues-victims-of-las-vegas-mass-shooting?ref=home

MGM Resorts Sues Victims of Las Vegas Mass Shooting


MGM Resorts International has reportedly filed federal lawsuits against hundreds of victims of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas in an apparent bid to pre-empt any compensation claims. MGM, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino and the venue of the Route 91 Harvest music festival, has argued that any lawsuits holding the company liable for deaths or injuries during the Oct. 1 massacre “must be dismissed” because the company took reasonable precautions to prevent such mass violence. In a statement released Monday, MGM spokeswoman Debra DeShong appeared to portray the lawsuits as an act of compassion for the victims. “Years of drawn out litigation and hearings are not in the best interest of victims, the community and those still healing,” she said, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Fifty-eight people were killed and an additional 850 were injured last year when Stephen Paddock opened fire from inside Mandalay Bay onto a crowd of festival-goers below, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Robert Eglet, a lawyer representing several of the victims, has called MGM’s lawsuits “outrageous.” “It’s just really sad that they would stoop to this level,” he told the Review-Journal.

[NBachers]

1. Are they suing the estates of the dead people, too?

[smirkymonkey]

2. I expect this to backfire bigly.

[Takket]

3. Someone who is a lawyer please explain how this works

I don’t understand how you can stop a compensation claim by suing someone first.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

4. The Las Vegas Review Journal is propaganda

We should not cite or read the LV Review-Journal.

It’s owned by a Trumpite billionaire: Sheldon Adelson

[VOX]

5. MGM offers up some free "compassion" by suing the victims.

More American “exceptionalism” on exhibit in the Trump Era.

[Lee-Lee]

6. Digging deeper I found this:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/lawsuits-claim-mgm-has-no-liability-to-las-vegas-shooting-victims/

It looks like they are claiming that a federal law passed in 2002 that shields companies who make security technology intended to help stop terrorism from liability in case of an attack the technology fails to stop should also extend to them since they hired the company.

That is a stretch, at best.

It looks like everybody involved is Judge shopping and venue shopping. The people suing MGM seem to all be filing charges in CA state courts instead of Nevada because they feel the law in CA better helps thier case, and now MGM is going to Federal Court trying to have all lawsuits thrown out saying because they hired a security company who is shielded from liability under the law that they too should be shielded.