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Title: Possible Lawsuit Over Aurora Movie Shootings Targets Owner
Source: CBS 4 Denver
URL Source: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/09/ ... movie-shootings-targets-owner/
Published: Sep 8, 2012
Author: CBS
Post Date: 2012-09-08 12:26:01 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 283
Comments: 8

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A possible lawsuit is brewing over the shootings at the Aurora movie theater, and there may be many more. The suit could target the owner of the theater.

Lawyers in New York they say Cinemark is the main entity they’re planning to go after for compensation for the victims. They’re hoping they can reach some sort of settlement right off the bat, but they’re prepared to go to court.

“We have the experience and the contacts to hopefully end this litigation quickly,” attorney Marc Bern said.

Bern is with Napoli, Bern, Ripka, and Scholonik, a New York firm that has represented victims from Sept. 11 and the Costa Concordia ship wreck. Bern won’t say who, but they’ve partnered with a local firm and are now representing many of the theater shooting victims, trying to get compensation.

“The victims here are some of the worst types of injuries that I have seen in over 37 years of practice,” Bern said. “I believe that the primary responsibility at this point rests with Cinemark.”

Bern says right now they’re investigating to see if there were any past incidents at the theater and if there should have been more security there. Also in their crosshairs, the mental health professionals suspect James Holmes saw in the past.

“Either they did warn, and if they did, who did they warn. And if they failed to warn, should they have warned?”

That has been a central question in the case, and because of doctor-patient confidentiality, it’s something that may never be revealed.

Aurora police say no major incident like a shooting has ever happened before in the theater, but has happened in the nearby mall. Cinemark has yet to comment on the impending litigation.

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This takes the cake, greedy victims paired with fucking jewish lawyers. Suppose that the Cinemark theater had security, it would be nothing more than a minimum-wage rent-a-cop totally incapable of dealing with a well-armed nutcase. The lawyers get paid no matter what, any settlement for the victims will include the usual 40% cut to the attorneys.

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

First thing, kill all the lawyers.

I sense a disturbance in the farce. Much gnashing will ensue.

Turtle  posted on  2012-09-08   16:05:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

If this case is properly defended, discovery could be really interesting.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2012-09-08   16:19:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I would be Very surprised if the theater were held liable. This was a movie that nobody had yet seen, so it was positively unknown that it had potential to incite violence (and the shooter, sneaking weapons into the theater, hadn't yet seen it either, so maybe the movie itself or any part of it cannot be blamed - the same might have happened with a Disney cartoon). The notion of some nut bringing assault weapons into a movie house was so improbable that the very considerable expense of having rent-a-cops frisk everybody going into every showing of every movie would have been considered impractical and prohibitively expensive.

Perhaps the one weakness for the theater is that it was possible for the shooter to sneak his weapons through the fire doors. But I would think that the mall owner rather than the theater specifically may be responsible for that design flaw. Henceforth, theaters might be expected to have some design to keep fire doors under scrutiny - and speedy intervention by mall personnel.

Shoonra  posted on  2012-09-08   16:53:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

is this just another one of them there cooinkidinks?

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates has said that the Cinemark in Aurora normally uses off-duty officers to provide security on weekend nights but did not have any working for the July 19 showings that went into the next morning. The theater does not have an unusually high record of complaints or crimes, police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson said.

Plano, Texas-based Cinemark, which operates the Aurora theater, declined to explain why guards weren't provided in Aurora that night and declined to discuss safety policies in general.

www.huffingtonpost.com/20...d-security_n_1717480.html

let me get this straight, you want this and have the power to do it, yet you let that other guy decide if you should? yep - why? cause the book told me to ... who wrote the book? well, he did ... the guy telling you what to do, wrote the book telling you to let him run your life? yes ... say, you want to buy a bridge?

~ the truth will set ya free, but only after it pisses ya off

~my place to rant

Amandil  posted on  2012-09-08   18:39:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Huh! - I didn't know that it was based in Plano.

Thanks.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2012-09-08   19:06:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

in other reports that I canna find today, they made more of a point that normally there is 'additional' security for a debut like this ... but this night, there was 'none'?

is this significant? that they are from Plano? I used to drive through there a lot

let me get this straight, you want this and have the power to do it, yet you let that other guy decide if you should? yep - why? cause the book told me to ... who wrote the book? well, he did ... the guy telling you what to do, wrote the book telling you to let him run your life? yes ... say, you want to buy a bridge?

~ the truth will set ya free, but only after it pisses ya off

~my place to rant

Amandil  posted on  2012-09-08   19:28:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I guess that any good shooting has some Texas connection, if you look hard enough to find it.

It's only 20 miles to Dealey Plaza...

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2012-09-08   20:21:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

It may be that the theater didn't think to hire local police for a rare midnight debut on a Thursday night when it usually hires some for weekend nights for normal hours. Those oversights happen, and you might expect that a midnight show would have few youngsters. Additionally, even when the off-duty cops are there, it's not clear that they could or would frisk people for weapons or be able to do much to prevent this particular shooting.

Shoonra  posted on  2012-09-08   20:28:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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