While I sympathize with the victims of the shooting, this lawsuit hopefully will go nowhere.
From the Chicago Tribune: Three Colorado moviegoers who were wounded when a gunman opened fire at a
July screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" on Friday sued the owner of
the theater, Cinemark USA, accusing it of failing to provide adequate
security, their lawyers said.
The action marks the
first known civil lawsuits filed over the July 20 shootings at a
suburban Denver screening of the Batman movie that killed 12 people and
wounded 58 others.
James Holmes, a 24-year-old former neuroscience graduate student at the
University of Colorado, has been charged with murder and attempted
murder in the case.
"Readily available security
procedures, security equipment and security personnel would likely have
prevented or deterred the gunman from accomplishing his planned assault
on the theater's patrons," the law firm of Keating, Wagner, Polidori and
Free said in a written statement....
The lawsuit also states "there was no action taken by theater employees
to safely evacuate the many people" in the theater once the shooting
spree got underway. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-shooting-denverbre88k19j-20120921,0,3714871.story
Even if there was security on site, how would they have stopped the shooting? And employees evacuating the theater when the shooting started? Hell, even the cops had problems evacuating the theater after they go to the theater.
This lawsuit is just another example of an ambulance chasing lawyer going after a supposed big pocket plaintiff. Gee, maybe that is why they didn't sue the shooter?
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