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Las Vegas Shooting Victims File Lawsuit Against Route 91 Festival
Survivors and families of the Las Vegas Shooting massacre victims at the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival are suing concert promoters.
NEWPORT BEACH, CA — A class action lawsuit against Live Nation has been filed by Newport Beach Attorney Mark Robinson on behalf of victims of the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting massacre.
Concertgoers at the Las Vegas shooting massacre that killed 58 people have filed a lawsuit in Santa Ana demanding they get a refund from the concert promoter, attorneys said Monday.
The lawsuit was filed in Orange County Superior Court on Friday against Live Nation Entertainment, a multi-billion dollar global entertainment company.
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Authorities say Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas strip on Oct. 1, 2017, from a nearby hotel room and killed 36 women and 22 men while wounding 851 others.
The lawsuit demands that the Beverly Hills-based concert promoter refund all of the 22,000 tickets sold for the show, many at over $500 each.
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"It's hard to believe that it's almost March 2018 and only a portion of those who purchased tickets to the October concert, which ended in massacre, have had their money refunded," attorney Mark Robinson said.
Robinson said some concertgoers received refunds when they requested them.
"As we were interviewing several hundred of our clients, we realized some had received refunds and some had not," said attorney Craig Eiland, an Austin, Texas-based lawyer involved in the lawsuit.
"It didn't matter if they were family members of deceased, gunshot victims or traumatized because of the shooting and their escape. The only factor was that those that heard about a refund through Facebook or friends and demanded a refund, got it. So we decided to make one demand on behalf of everyone."
Robinson said many of the concertgoers reside in Orange County.
"We didn't think it was fair that some who privately asked for refunds got them when really everybody who bought a ticket deserves a full refund," Robinson said.
Kevin and Laura Thompson, two plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said they paid more than $500 for their two tickets to the country music show.
Messages left with Live Nation's publicity department were not returned Monday.
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