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unhappycamper

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Sun Aug 17, 2014, 06:53 AM Aug 2014

Judge allows lawsuits against movie theater owner in Aurora, Colorado massacre

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/16/judge-allows-lawsuits-against-movie-theater-owner-in-aurora-colorado-massacre/



Judge allows lawsuits against movie theater owner in Aurora, Colorado massacre
By Reuters
Saturday, August 16, 2014 6:29 EDT

A federal judge has again refused to dismiss wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits filed against a movie theater chain by victims of a 2012 mass shooting at a Colorado cinema where 12 people were killed and dozens injured.

U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson on Friday rejected a motion for summary judgment filed by lawyers for Texas-based Cinemark USA to dismiss the lawsuits.

Nearly 30 victims or the families of those killed or wounded in the rampage have sued Cinemark, owner of the theater complex where the massacre took place.

In general, the lawsuits claim Cinemark had lax security at its theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora when a gunman opened fired during a midnight screening of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.”
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Judge allows lawsuits against movie theater owner in Aurora, Colorado massacre (Original Post) unhappycamper Aug 2014 OP
'lax security'? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2014 #1
I see no malice or negligence by the Theater owners. FarPoint Aug 2014 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. 'lax security'?
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 07:06 AM
Aug 2014

If they'd had a half dozen typical security guys hanging around, the result would have been six more dead. Exactly what sort of security do they expect from a movie theatre? External checkpoints, with a machine gunner behind bulletproof glass to shoot down body-armored types after they mow down security guards outside?

Hell, I don't recall ever seeing any security guards at any movie theatre I've ever been to. Just teenagers in uniforms taking tickets.

FarPoint

(13,592 posts)
2. I see no malice or negligence by the Theater owners.
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 07:16 AM
Aug 2014

Maybe the judge will let a civil suit play out in court....does not mean he believes its a strong case...nor that it has liability.

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