State tax commission gives authority to chairman to negotiate settlements with marijuana companies. [TNI]
Las Vegas’ convention industry vendors are already losing business with news of the coronavirus. [RJ]
Las Vegas travel agents press on amid ‘mass hysteria’ over coronavirus. [Vegas Inc.]
President Trump announced plans to discuss payroll tax cuts and worker relief to deal with the effects of the virus. Has your firm taken any steps to get ready? [NPR]
Santa Clara County, CA, home of the San Jose Sharks, has banned all events with more than 1,000 people. Will we see something like that in Las Vegas? [NY Post]
A big 9th Circuit win for Led Zeppelin in copyright case. [Variety, 9th Cir.]
Well, Las Vegas is worried about the tourism and the travel. The hotels are freaking out. Let me remind everybody that not so long ago, a crazy animal brutally executed 70 people from a hotel window. The families of the slain people sued the hotel for lack of security and taking measures to protect the patrons of the establishment.
The response of the hotel was essentially "business is business" and we have no liability. The lead defense counsel (who I unfortunately know personally) had the chutzpah to counter-sue the victims and their families and nobody bat an eye. He and his law firm should burn in hell.
Well, I think the hotels have made a strong statement of "you are on your own" to all of the tourists and people who come to Vegas. At this point in time, I have absolutely no mercy for this city regarding the coronavirus and the outbreak of worry. The joke is on them.
I think it is time that the hotels take an honest look at themselves and invest long-term in security, health measures and taking care of employees when they come down with this virus and others. This was not the first virus and it will not be the last. The hotels need to have an intellectually honest conversation about protecting the tourists and the patrons of the establishment.
10:39 You are absolutely correct. Declaratory relief. No the hotel should not have known what Paddock had in his suitcases. No I do not want hotels to know what toys I might have in my bag of tricks when I check into a hotel or what kinkwear people might have in their bags.
8:54– You are partially right= a brutal animal executed 58 people across the street from a hotel, not the actual patrons of the hotel where the animal was located (although there is a common ownership issue if we want to get into the weeds). The hotel did not execute them. The hotel had no forewarning. A brutally deranged person did brutally deranged things. The hotel could not reasonably have prevented him. LVMPD could not have prevented him. No one could have stopped him. That hotel made a MASSIVE amount of money as an act of community good faith. However to wish ill on "this city" for what you presume to be the acts of a corporation in the county says all one needs to know about broad based unsupported allegations and assumptions.
Spoken like a true defense counsel. Bravo. However the broader issue is the hotels not really caring so let us bifrucate the issues of virus spreading and a PI claim. The issue is still the same. The hotels need to take precautions. Yes, it is not reasonably foreseeable that a terrorist act could occur in Vegas. Hmmmm, I vaguely remember something called September 11, 2001. Yeah, they knew something could happen. They just did a benefit-cost analysis like the Ford Truck case down in Texas long ago and figured it would be cheaper to pay off the survivors. I call BS on you and your insurance defense posture.
How does 9/11 impose forseeability? And what reasonable steps should the hotel take to make sure that it protects its guests? Surface-to-air missles? Armed security and metal detectors at every entrance and a search of each of your bags whenever you enter?
I'm not a defense lawyer, but seriously, how is MGM responsible for a crazy person's actions?
Or, have an alarm system on the window, so you'd know if someone broke out the window and could have gone to investigate…
I pay a very tiny amount monthly to have my windows alarmed to know if someone breaks one. I have to imagine MGM had the same technology available to it.
So an alarm system would have given Mandalay mere seconds advanced notice to know that semi-automatic weapons would start firing out of the windows, at which time security guards "could have gone to investigate" semi-automatic weapons firing out of the window. Obviously it is horribly tragic what happened. But to pretend that the hotel should have known and stopped this is makes no sense. Even in hindsight, a high stakes gambler wanting to stay with his bags is entirely unremarkable. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/us/las-vegas-shooting-stephen-paddock.html
Well, Las Vegas is worried about the tourism and the travel. The hotels are freaking out. Let me remind everybody that not so long ago, a crazy animal brutally executed 70 people from a hotel window. The families of the slain people sued the hotel for lack of security and taking measures to protect the patrons of the establishment.
The response of the hotel was essentially "business is business" and we have no liability. The lead defense counsel (who I unfortunately know personally) had the chutzpah to counter-sue the victims and their families and nobody bat an eye. He and his law firm should burn in hell.
Well, I think the hotels have made a strong statement of "you are on your own" to all of the tourists and people who come to Vegas. At this point in time, I have absolutely no mercy for this city regarding the coronavirus and the outbreak of worry. The joke is on them.
I think it is time that the hotels take an honest look at themselves and invest long-term in security, health measures and taking care of employees when they come down with this virus and others. This was not the first virus and it will not be the last. The hotels need to have an intellectually honest conversation about protecting the tourists and the patrons of the establishment.
8:54
I thought defense counsel counter-sued the Plaintiffs for dec relief, not for actual damages?
10:39 You are absolutely correct. Declaratory relief. No the hotel should not have known what Paddock had in his suitcases. No I do not want hotels to know what toys I might have in my bag of tricks when I check into a hotel or what kinkwear people might have in their bags.
8:54– You are partially right= a brutal animal executed 58 people across the street from a hotel, not the actual patrons of the hotel where the animal was located (although there is a common ownership issue if we want to get into the weeds). The hotel did not execute them. The hotel had no forewarning. A brutally deranged person did brutally deranged things. The hotel could not reasonably have prevented him. LVMPD could not have prevented him. No one could have stopped him. That hotel made a MASSIVE amount of money as an act of community good faith. However to wish ill on "this city" for what you presume to be the acts of a corporation in the county says all one needs to know about broad based unsupported allegations and assumptions.
Spoken like a true defense counsel. Bravo. However the broader issue is the hotels not really caring so let us bifrucate the issues of virus spreading and a PI claim. The issue is still the same. The hotels need to take precautions. Yes, it is not reasonably foreseeable that a terrorist act could occur in Vegas. Hmmmm, I vaguely remember something called September 11, 2001. Yeah, they knew something could happen. They just did a benefit-cost analysis like the Ford Truck case down in Texas long ago and figured it would be cheaper to pay off the survivors. I call BS on you and your insurance defense posture.
11:34 – But, Eglet
1:33 –
How does 9/11 impose forseeability? And what reasonable steps should the hotel take to make sure that it protects its guests? Surface-to-air missles? Armed security and metal detectors at every entrance and a search of each of your bags whenever you enter?
I'm not a defense lawyer, but seriously, how is MGM responsible for a crazy person's actions?
I, for one, welcome our new minimum wage earning hotel overlords to rifle through my bags before I go up to my room.
2:07 asks "seriously, how is MGM responsible for a crazy person's actions?"
That question is for Robert Eglet to answer. And no one else.
Just an idea could just, maybe, not let the dude use the employee entrance to haul what probably was litteraly a ton or more of ammo and guns?
Or, have an alarm system on the window, so you'd know if someone broke out the window and could have gone to investigate…
I pay a very tiny amount monthly to have my windows alarmed to know if someone breaks one. I have to imagine MGM had the same technology available to it.
So an alarm system would have given Mandalay mere seconds advanced notice to know that semi-automatic weapons would start firing out of the windows, at which time security guards "could have gone to investigate" semi-automatic weapons firing out of the window. Obviously it is horribly tragic what happened. But to pretend that the hotel should have known and stopped this is makes no sense. Even in hindsight, a high stakes gambler wanting to stay with his bags is entirely unremarkable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/us/las-vegas-shooting-stephen-paddock.html
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
but what is a "bustle in your hedgerow"? and shouldn't I be alarmed, now?
Flights are so cheap now. I can fly roundtrip to New Orleans for memorial weekend for under $300.
Do not fake Coronavirus
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/lawyer-makes-false-coronavirus-claim-to-delay-trial
Just had counsel move to vacate a NSC hearing in a couple weeks due to coronavirus fears.