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Las Vegas Hotel Sues 2017 Mass Shooting Victims

by VOA News

   The owners of the Las Vegas hotel that was the scene of the worst mass
   shooting in U.S. history is counter-suing victims who are suing the
   hotel or thinking of filing suit.

   Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds wounded when Stephen
   Paddock fired on a concert from his room at the Mandalay Bay hotel in
   October. Paddock killed himself as police moved in.

   MGM Resorts, which owns the hotel, filed suit against the victims last
   week, alleging those wounded or whose relatives were killed cannot sue
   the hotel.

   MGM cites a 2002 federal law that limits liabilities against businesses
   that take certain steps to "prevent and respond to mass violence."

   MGM says the security company it employed at the concert was certified
   by the Department of Homeland Security.

   But Las Vegas lawyer Robert Eglet, who represents about 1,000 of the
   victims, says the company providing security at the hotel itself, from
   where Paddock fired his shots, was not certified.

   "MGM has done something that in over 30 years of practice is the most
   outrageous thing I have ever seen. They have sued the families of the
   victims while they're still grieving over their loved ones," Eglet
   said.