9 of the ten wrongful dying lawsuits towards Travis Scott, Stay Nation and others had been settled out of court docket. Based on the Related Press, Stay Nation’s lawyer Neal Manne knowledgeable a Texas court docket of the settlements at a listening to on Wednesday (Could 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 Could, 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 decide denied Scott’s movement to be missed from the lawsuits. His attorneys claimed he wasn’t chargeable for crowd security on the 2021 Astroworld Pageant.
“Nobody disputes that tragedy struck the Astroworld Pageant,” his attorneys argued. “However selling and acting at a live performance don’t equate to the facility to regulate a crowd or to design a venue safely. Primary tort rules 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 dying lawsuits towards Scott and others concerned within the Astroworld Pageant. 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 informed 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 legal prices over the lethal occasion in 2023.