9 of 10 wrongful death suits over Astroworld concert crowd surge have been settled, lawyer says
More than 4,000 plaintiffs filed hundreds of lawsuits after the concert.
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal court in Texas dismissed the counterclaims brought by Louis Black, the co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest (SXSW), against a former employee who sued him for allegedly coercing her into sex and withholding her salary when she refused to marry him. His countersuit alleges that she stole “several valuable comic books and pulp magazines” from his garage, but the counterclaim is inappropriate because the legal questions in the suit and countersuit “contain no overlap.”
More than 4,000 plaintiffs filed hundreds of lawsuits after the concert.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court decided not to rehear the in vitro fertilization case it considered earlier this year on the question of whether frozen embryos are children protected under the Alabama Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
Over 4,000 plaintiffs filed hundreds of lawsuits following the concert.
HOUSTON — A federal court in Texas ruled that an engineering company that was involved in building a factory cannot be held liable for the scalding death of a forklift operator who ruptured a pipe conveying pressurized hot beans. The company were not responsible for work such as safety assessments or the placement of that pipe, so it wins summary judgment on the claims.
BOSTON — A federal court in Massachusetts denied the city of Brockton and its police officials’ motion to dismiss 14th Amendment and municipal liability claims brought against them after a man died in custody. He had difficulty standing upright and staying awake, which should have indicated to the officers that he needed medical attention.
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit ruled that a Louisiana federal court improperly found an Indian citizen’s claims are governed by the Jones Act and general maritime law. He says he contracted malaria while working on a Liberian ship managed by a Singaporean company. The shipworker suffered gangrene and had several toes amputated, but he has not shown the relevant portions of Singaporean or Indian law conflict with Liberian law. The law of the ship’s flag prevails.
Police arrested over 100 people, mostly minors, after the Dolores Park Hill Bomb skateboarding event last summer.
The announcement is another step toward resolving one of the biggest medical device recalls in the industry's history, which has dragged on for nearly three years.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal court in Alabama declined to dismiss a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit filed against a man who directed his friend to a gun in the back of his car, which his friend used to shoot and kill someone he was arguing with in downtown Tuscaloosa. Though another person committed the shooting, the allegations leave enough room for members of a jury to disagree as to whether the injury was foreseeable.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in New Orleans denied a parish school board’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that three suburban school employees used physical violence on a blind, autistic 12-year-old student in separate incidences on the same day. The child’s family’s claims are supported by video and witness testimony. According to the parents, the school board posits that “kicking, hitting, and slamming a child’s head into a table somehow does not constitute battery.”