(8 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Houston – 7 November 2021
1. Man cries and holds his head.
2. Tight of flowers at the memorial
3. Various of Victoria Vasquez’s writing on condolence cards at the memorial.
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Houston – 8 May 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Lozano, The Associated Press:
“Nine of the ten wrongful death lawsuits that were filed after the deadly 2021 Astroworld music festival held in Houston have been settled. This includes one that was set to go to trial this week. The lawsuits were filed after ten people were killed and hundreds were injured during a crowd surge at the November 5th, 2021, concert held by rap superstar Travis Scott."
5. Men leave flowers at the memorial.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Houston – 26 April 2024
6. Wide of court hearing
7. Mid of attorneys’
8. Mid of Judge Kristen Brauchle Hawkins during a hearing
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Houston – 8 May 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Lozano, The Associated Press:
"Neil Manni, an attorney for Live Nation, said during a court hearing on Wednesday that only one of the wrongful death lawsuits remains pending, and the other nine have been settled. Terms of the settlements were confidential and after the court hearing. Attorneys in the case declined to comment because of a gag order. "
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Lozano, Associated Press:
“The one wrongful death lawsuit that remains pending was filed by the family of nine-year-old Ezra Blunt, the youngest person killed during the concert.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Houston – 7 November 2021
11. Various "Astroworld" t-shirts at the memorial
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Houston – 8 May 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Lozano, The Associated Press:
“About twenty-four hundred (2,400) injury cases that were filed after the deadly concert also remain pending.”
STORYLINE:
Nine of the 10 wrongful death lawsuits filed after a deadly crowd surge at the 2021 Astroworld music festival have been settled, including one that was set to go to trial this week, an attorney said Wednesday.
Jury selection had been set to begin Tuesday in the wrongful death suit filed the family of Madison Dubiski, a 23-year-old Houston resident who was one of 10 people killed during the crowd crush at the Nov. 5, 2021, concert by rap superstar Travis Scott.
But Neal Manne, an attorney for Live Nation, the festival’s promoter and one of those being sued along with Scott, said during a court hearing Wednesday that only one wrongful death lawsuit remained pending and the other nine have been settled, including the one filed by Dubiski’s family.
Noah Wexler, an attorney for Dubiski’s family, confirmed during the court hearing that their case “is resolved in its entirety.”
Terms of the settlements were confidential and attorneys declined to comment after the court hearing because of a gag order in the case.
The one wrongful death lawsuit that remains pending was filed by the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, the youngest person killed during the concert. Attorneys in the litigation were set to meet next week to discuss when the lawsuit filed by Blount’s family could be set for trial.
“This case is ready for trial,” Scott West, an attorney for Blount’s family, said in court.
But Manne said he and the lawyers for other defendants being sued were not ready.
Hawkins said that if the Blount family’s lawsuit is not settled, she is inclined to schedule that as the next trial instead of an injury case.
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