https://www.thedailybeast.com/mgm-resorts-sues-victims-of-las-vegas-mass-shooting
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MGM Resorts International has reportedly filed federal lawsuits against hundreds of victims of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas in an apparent bid to preemptively stop any compensation claims.
MGM, which owns Mandalay Bay and the venue of the Route 91 Harvest festival, has argued that any lawsuits holding the company liable for deaths or injuries during the Oct. 1 massacre “must be dismissed” because the company took reasonable precautions to prevent such mass violence.
In a statement released Monday, MGM spokeswoman Debra DeShong appeared to portray the lawsuits as an act of compassion for the victims. “Years of drawn out litigation and hearings are not in the best interest of victims, the community and those still healing,” DeShong said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Fifty-eight people were killed and another 850 were injured last year when Stephen Paddock opened fire from inside Mandalay Bay onto a crowd of festival-goers below.
Robert Eglet, an attorney representing several of the victims, has called MGM’s lawsuits “outrageous.” “It’s just really sad that they would stoop to this level,” he told theReview-Journal.