While victims of the shooting that changed their lives forever, some were looking to place blame and gain compensation for their pain and suffering from the theater chain for the incident.

Even the best lawyers were advising the victims that they probably will not win this one, and so many dropped out of the law suit.

But four of them kept after it, trying to teach the theater chain a lesson and also gain compensation.

The judge even tried desperately to have the four victims to accept a settlement. The theater chain offered $150,000 for these four victims to split up. Of course they considered that a slap in the face. They wanted millions.

After so much pleading, because they warned the consequences of not accepting the settlement and they didn't want the worse to happen, but one 'victim' was stubborn and said that they didn't want the settlement (it was an all in or none kind of deal). The theater needed to suffer a lesson and pay him/her millions.

Well! The courts ruled in favor of the theater company. The four victims now has to pay up $700K in legal fess for the theater and government legal cost, and could even go much higher for the federal law suit as well, which the theater will win too.

http://www.latimes.com/nati...0822-snap-story.html

As much as it saddens me for these victims, I am a big advocate of loser pays. So now these families will have an unfortunate debt to pay, but sometimes seeking fault, blame and wanting obscene compensation needs to stop. This was a powerful lesson indeed.

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About time they started cracking down on the sue for anything to get a million dollars people. I do feel sorry for the victims, and that this is the case that the line was drawn on.

Being greedy scum in no way diminishes the tragedy they suffered.
Likewise, the tragedy does not excuse or validate them acting like greedy scum.

Glad to see the greedy little buggers didn't get away with it. What kind of retard blames a theater for what some independent nut-job does?

This is what happens when grieving families and upset survivors get *used* by others for "Social Justice" causes.
Especially when attempting "social justice" by way of legally insufficient and ridiculous civil litigation.

Don't forget that Lonnie Phillips and his wife, ( parents of one of the murdered), also attempted to sue the online ammunition manufacturer.
Despite being STRONGLY advised that they didn't have a case, they of course plunged ahead, driven on by the "social justice warriors" and predictably lost.
They now owe over $200k to the ammunition company for its legal costs.
http://freebeacon.com/issue...-dismissing-lawsuit/


The leftist "Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence" used the Phillips family in the litigation. Never heard if they paid the tab for the family or just left them on the hook as would be the usual with groups like that.

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