Posted on 10/12/2017 11:42:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Specifically, the lawsuit accuses MGM, of failing to respond in a timely manner to the "shooting of Mandalay Bay security officer Jesus Campos, who had gone to the 32nd floor to check on an alert from another guest room and who was shot six minutes prior to" the massacre beginning.
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When bullets fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay began ripping through the crowd, Gasper was shot in the right armpit, according to her complaint. The bullet went through breast tissue, shattered a rib, lacerated her liver and then exited her body, the lawsuit says.
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Gasper's attorneys claim not only that MGM should have have responded more promptly to news of Campos' shooting, but hotel security should have noticed something was amiss on several occasions. Instead, the lawsuit alleges, MGM's negligence enabled one of its guests "to commit a mass shooting unencumbered." The hotel company failed to properly monitor its hotel by failing to notice the shooter carrying weapons to his room. It also failed to notice the perpetrator setting up surveillance outside of his room, and didn't respond quickly enough after he broke the windows in his hotel room to start shooting, according to the lawsuit.
Live Nation, the festival promoter, is also named in the suit for allegedly failing to "build and mark" adequate emergency exits and train its employees how to respond in an emergency. There was no plan in place for an emergency evacuation, and no announcer took over the sound system to provide instructions, attorney Chad Pinkerton alleged.
"People were left unknowing, figuring out on their own how to escape," he told reporters.
And while the lawsuit leaves the door open to add other manufacturers and designers of bump stocks, it specifically names Texas-based Slide Fire Solutions
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It was gonna happen eventually.
And away we go!
Odd she would claim being shot in armpit. Then article says breast tissue, rib and liver?
When I read stories like this the image of Walter Mattau playing the lawyer in “The Fortune Cookie” springs to mind.
I’m gonna git me a new car outta this!
Huge, probably insurmountable legal uphill battle:
1) Prove that, but for MBs response, plaintiff would not have been injured
2) Prove that MB has a legal duty beyond normal security measures to stop an incident like this
3) Prove MB response was outside industry norms
That is off the top of my head. LV hotel lawyers are like Disney lawyers. They are the sharks that the rest of the sharks are scared to death of.
This is a flyer of a suit in the hopes the hotel will settle to make them go away. In the next month or so you will see everyone for a 1 square mile area sued, including other festival-goers who have a few bucks, the performers, the managers, the roadies, the fence makers, the people who make the coolers that were used to keep beer cold, the vendors, , people gambling downstairs, all the people who were on that floor, everyone.
It is the American way.
Great flick. But this gal’s injuries are impossible to fake (unlike Jack Lemons’s bad back.)
None of these plaintiffs would want me on the jury.
This is the first time this has ever happened in the US. NObody was looking for it. It is a DB Cooper moment.
Money-mad lawyers trying to get money from those who were not responsible for the crime.
Yup. People sue, and look for deep pockets for the money. The blame game.
"People were left unknowing, figuring out on their own how to escape," he told reporters.
Lawyer is surprised that people have to figure out how to take care of themselves. That's life. Crap happens. You can't have safety nets and barriers for everything, with signage telling you what to do and where to go when a nutjob shoots towards you. Who wants a nanny state? The nanny state isn't protecting me from ghetto punks or knife-toting illegal aliens, and lets them off the hook even if they're arrested. Crap happens, be on guard and use your wits to escape.
Now certainly made more complicated by the apparent fact that the "security guard" may not have been on MB's payroll nor on its communications network.
She got injured, right? How about the families of the murdered? They kept quiet, for now but I think one of them at least will eventually sue Mandalay.
That six minutes of inaction will cost MGM a minimum of $10mil for each of the dead, and $2mil for each of the wounded.
It will be one of the largest lawsuits in US history.
I don’t see how the guy wins.
You can’t prevent every nut-job from doing what nut-jobs do.
Even if you add six minutes to the timeline from the guard wounding to the end of eleven minutes of shooting, how do you get a team in place, and prevent him from carrying out his intended goal?
This should be laughed out of court.
I do not think the hotel acted negligently.
The plaintiffs won’t have to prove the things you list. All they will have to prove is that MB didn’t call the cops as soon as they knew there was a shooting at their property.
The emotions of the jury will do the rest.
You can take that to the bank.
That took longer than I thought it would!
The only reason I can see for filing this lawsuit so quickly is to have it in play while the investigation is still going on so MB can't cover up the facts of the case very easily.
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