Posted on 12/18/2022 9:37:07 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
a jury has now awarded the families of both men $80 million each because the club did not have enough security.
--In a civil lawsuit against Sony, a jury awarded the families a total of $160 million for the wrongful deaths of Ynoa and Diaz.
The families don’t think they will ever see the money because they say Sony never showed up to any of the court hearings.
“It just shows that some people don’t really care,” Frailan Ynoa said.
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I don’t see that a club should be REQUIRED to have security. It should be their option and most clubs would hire security to protect THEIR property and THEIR employees.
—”WHo has that money to actually pay out?”
I think the attorneys would wip out the phrase,”joint and several liability”.
Has worked in the past.
BINGO!
No kidding. Start with the city, the mayor, etc. This is ridiculous.
“two up and coming rappers”
Notice how these thugs families are often awarded ridiculously large sums by juries of their “peers” who just want to make others “pay”. Even when the thugs are partly culpable in their own injuries or death. Their reasoning was that the club should have known that most of their patrons were criminal thugs and should have done more to make sure they didn’t bring guns into the nightclub.
Meanwhile, a poor young child can be tossed off a second floor mall balcony by a mentally ill cretin who should have been locked away from society, and the family is left to struggle and pay for the child’s medical care all on their own, or with very little assistance. The terms of that settlement was not disclosed in the mall case, but I suspect it was a lot less than what was received here.
Also, government officials are given sovereign immunity when their actions cause someone’s death, as are members of certain segments of our society. It is the innocent who pay, both financially, physically, and emotionally. Right and wrong have been turned upside down in our society.
Indeed
If Bautista was convicted of killing the two men, I have a hunch that Sony cannot be held liable for criminal acts committed by someone who was not acting as Sony’s agent or employee at the time. Can we guess that is why Sony did not attend the trial? If the judge even moves this forward, the appelate court will kill it (well, in a sane world will a real judicial system it would).
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