Colorado Theater Shooting Lawsuits Get May 2014 Trial Date

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• what should have already happened is

  the judge go ” yaaa right –sure– you buy a 15$ movie ticket and expect the same protection as a President of the US –NOT!!”

  then he feeds the WHOLE thing into a paper shredder!!!!

  Comment by bob — Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 4:35pm PST  Reply to this post

• obviously this was a terrible tragedy, but how these people can file lawsuits against a cinema for ‘lack of proper security’ is mind boggling. Cinemas are not airports, they should not become airports and they should not be treated as such. They are a place for everyone to go and spend a couple of hours enjoying themselves in a carefree and hassle-free environment. This was a one off incident and, horrendous tough it was, should not be the start of a movement to impose post 9/11 airport type security in cinemas.

  Comment by bobbyP — Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 4:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• I love how people grief in this country; the memories of these people are barely cold and the ambulance chasers appear. Sad that tragedy = money. It is an awful incident that needs be put to rest. No money in the world can replace the loved ones gone, and in no way is the theatre chain responsible for what happened.

  Comment by BRAD — Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 5:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• Terrible tragedy, but you don’t get a big payday every time something bad happens to you.

  Comment by Bob — Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 6:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• All they have to prove that basic security one would expect under normal situation was lax.

  Again, the theater must have had close-circut cameras outside the exits, or even inside by the exit doors. I don’t know any major theater chain that doesn’t have them to keep people from sneaking in, or sneaking in cameras.

  Discovery will be interesting.

  Comment by Herb Finn — Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 6:35pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I’ve worked 5 years at three theatres and NONE have security cameras outside the exit doors. The cameras protect areas where there is money, concessions, managers’ offices, box office, etc. They are forbidden in most auditoriums over worries about copyright. Most theatres have one or (if lucky) two security guards on a busy night. Most would be no match for a guy with semi-automatic weapons and tear gas. To think the theatre should have ANY liability in this matter is preposterous. While theatres do care about their patrons, it’s impossible to have a camera on all of them all the time. They protect areas where their employees are most vulnerable, where the money is. They are insured for the money, but it’s a whole other matter if employees are killed. I’d like you to tell me how many times this has happened and why the theatre should have been prepared for this…

    Comment by Jason — Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 6:59pm PST  Reply to this post

    • So no one ever commits robberies at theaters?

      Comment by D.Z. — Wednesday November 28, 2012 @ 3:25am PST  Reply to this post

      • Of course they do… But how many occur with semi-automatic handguns and tear gas? That’s why employees are told to cooperate and not make eye contact. This is how employees save their own lives. But sane individuals typically aren’t after shooting an audience of people with no intention of robbery. The risk is so low that you have a better chance of killing yourself driving to work, yet there’s no way to protect everyone all the time on the road. This is an incidence that, with even the best security team in place, there would still have been mass casualties. This guy could have easily done this in a Wal Mart parking lot shooting those waiting for a sale, or even worse, a kids’ sporting event where there is virtually no security. Who would be sued then? I guess the owner of the field, or the league. Why? Because they have money. The only person that should be sued in this case is the one already in jail, but that’s impractical since he doesn’t have the deep pockets the theatre does. Cinemark is only being sued because they have money-not because they are at fault. Cinemark was just in the wrong place at the wrong time-and anywhere something like this would happen, that place would be the one sued. It’s always the guy with the money’s fault, no matter what…

        Comment by Jason — Thursday November 29, 2012 @ 1:57am PST  Reply to this post

• I see Cinemark PR is working overtime tonight.

  Comment by Anita Busch — Tuesday November 27, 2012 @ 9:02pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Believe it or not there are actually people not affiliated with the theater who have opinions on the matter. Imagine that, wow!

    Comment by Henry Fox — Thursday November 29, 2012 @ 6:11pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I’m not affiliated with the theater… I’m just not an idiot.

    I found about this by watching this guy’s video, and I couldn’t agree more.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1UWxD3fCFU

    There is no way that the theater is liable for a psychopath’s actions. Sure, the families are grieving, but that isn’t an excuse for making a bad situation worse.

    This was a RANDOM TRAGEDY. Why not sue Heathe Ledger’s estate, or DC comics for “inspiring” the crime, and not providing enough security for their even that blatantly glorifies violence and crime?

    Why aren’t the families sueing the local police department, or the dude’s psychiatrist? ALL of those parties are arguably more responsible is than the theater, who in reality is another victim of this man’s crime.

    A 7-ll, often referred to as “Stop and Robs”, does not get sued every single time some gangbanger awkwardly robs the register and the customers – a theater shouldn’t be getting sued simply because they didn’t have the same security you might expect at a bank or a Metallica concert.

    Comment by Tomo — Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 1:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• Militarizing theaters is clearly the only way to keep us safe. I wont feel safe until guards with M-16′s are posted at every entrance and exit. And why stop there? We can have guards with M-16′s on every corner, except the ghetto’s where their idea of security is much different all together. This is the only way I will feel properly secure in my day to day.

  Comment by Pathetic — Wednesday November 28, 2012 @ 10:30am PST  Reply to this post

• I don’t understand how any theatre can be responsible for anything that goes down outside it’s doors. I don’t frequent theaters very often, but if they were militarized like the airports, I know I would never attend a theatre ever again. This is a one-off incident solely the responsibility of the crazy individual who perpetrated the shooting. I can’t imagine how the ambulance chasers established a case against the theatre in the first place. I can’t imagine what the judge was thinking unless he/she is looking for a high profile case to show-off in front of the TV cameras that will, no doubt, be allowed in the courtroom during the trial.

  Comment by Kaywyoming — Wednesday November 28, 2012 @ 6:24pm PST  Reply to this post

• It is amazing how so many people who don’t have any idea what went on there think they know it all. idiots.

  Comment by Karen — Friday November 30, 2012 @ 9:58pm PST  Reply to this post