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Mandalay Bay Owners Sue Victims of Las Vegas Mass Shooting
The corporate owners of the Mandalay Bay casino filed suit against the vic- tims of last year’s Las Vegas con- cert mass shoot- ing, claiming it has no liability for the massacre, according to a published report on Monday.
MGM Resorts International went to federal courts in Nevada and California and took on more than 1,000 shoot- ing victims, say- ing claims against the hotel giant “must be dis- missed.”
“Plaintiffs have no liability of any kind to defen- dants,” the com- plaints
argue, according
to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Las Vegas lawyer Robert Eglet, who is represent- ing several vic- tims, told the paper that the hotel’s unusual action is a pre- emptive strike to get the cases heard in federal court instead of state court. Englet said MGM must believe it has better chances of victo- ry in a federal case.
The MGM law- suits are a “bla- tant display of judge shopping” that “quite frankly verges on unethi- cal,” according to Eglet.
“I’ve never seen a more outra-
geous thing, where they sue the victims in an effort to find a judge they like,” the lawyer contin- ued. “It’s just really sad that they would stoop to this level.”
An MGM spokes- woman said Monday of the company’s law- suits: “The Federal Court is an appropriate venue for these cases and pro- vides those affected with the opportunity for a timely resolution. Years of drawn out litigation and hearings are not in the best inter- est of victims, the community and those still heal- ing.”
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