Cinemark increasingly looks like it will have to face a jury over liability for the July 20, 2012 fatal shooting rampage at the Aurora, Colo., midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. For the second time in a year and a half, a federal judge in Colorado has refused Texas-based Cinemark’s legal efforts to end the lawsuit by victims and their families that blames a lack of adequate security at the venue for contributing to the deaths of their loved ones.
‘This Court is in no way holding as a matter of law that Cinemark should have known of the danger of someone entering one of its theaters through the back door and randomly shooting innocent patrons,” said Judge R. Brooke Jackson in his Aug. 15 order (read it here). “I hold only that a court cannot grant summary judgment on what is normally a question of fact under Colorado law unless...
‘This Court is in no way holding as a matter of law that Cinemark should have known of the danger of someone entering one of its theaters through the back door and randomly shooting innocent patrons,” said Judge R. Brooke Jackson in his Aug. 15 order (read it here). “I hold only that a court cannot grant summary judgment on what is normally a question of fact under Colorado law unless...
- 8/17/2014
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline
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