9 of the ten wrongful loss of life lawsuits in opposition to Travis Scott, Stay Nation and others had been settled out of court docket. In response to the Associated Press, Stay Nation’s lawyer Neal Manne knowledgeable a Texas court docket of the settlements at a listening to on Wednesday (Might 8).
The settlements included a lawsuit filed by the household of 23-year-old Madison Dubiski, one of many 10 folks killed within the Astroworld tragedy. Her household’s case was the primary scheduled to go to trial. Jury choice was set to start in Might, however her household’s lawyer Noah Wexler mentioned the case was “resolved in its entirety” at Wednesday’s listening to.
Phrases of the settlements weren’t disclosed. Offers had been reached after a choose denied Scott’s movement to be missed from the lawsuits. His attorneys claimed he wasn’t chargeable for crowd security on the 2021 Astroworld Competition.
“Nobody disputes that tragedy struck the Astroworld Competition,” his attorneys argued. “However selling and acting at a live performance don’t equate to the ability to regulate a crowd or to design a venue safely. Primary tort ideas stop imposing legal responsibility on the Scott Defendants for a tragedy arising from forces legally managed by others.”
The household of 9-year-old Ezra Blount was the lone holdout in settling the wrongful loss of life lawsuits in opposition to Scott and others concerned within the Astroworld Competition. Blount was the youngest sufferer killed within the crowd crush on the notorious occasion.
“This case is prepared for trial,” the Blount household’s lawyer Scott West instructed the court docket.
Stay Nation and its fellow defendants claimed they weren’t prepared for trial. Attorneys for either side had been scheduled to satisfy subsequent week to find out a possible trial begin date.
Scott and Stay Nation nonetheless confronted roughly 2,400 instances relating to accidents from the Astroworld tragedy. A grand jury declined to indict Scott on prison expenses over the lethal occasion in 2023.