The ruling came as the concert giant faces a similar wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal backstage stabbing of Drakeo The Ruler.
concert, a California appeals court says, because such an attack was not the kind of event that the concert giant should have seen coming.
In a ruling issued Tuesday , the California Court of Appeal refused to revive a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of, an event promoter who was shot to death during an August 2014 stop at a San Francisco-area venue during Jeezy’s Under the Influence of Music tour.
“A violent attack by and between artists and their guests in the backstage area of a performance is not a foreseeable occurrence against which Live Nation should have provided preventative measures of the nature plaintiffs suggest,” JusticeIn its ruling, the appeals court suggested that Live Nation likely had good reason to be worried about incidents involving the crowd, citing reports that fights had broken out at previous events.
“The reports did not … indicate that any of the artists or their entourages engaged in or posed any danger of violence during the tour,” the judges wrote in the ruling. “The head of security also indicated that in her more than 10 years at the amphitheater, there had not been any violent incidents backstage.”on Thursday, Johnson family attorney Adanté D. Pointer expressed disappointment with the court’s decision.
“Despite a court somehow ruling that this industry giant has no duty to protect the public at its shows … the family remains hopeful LN will do the right thing and compensate the children of the man who lost his life back stage at their concert,” Pointer said.The ruling in favor of Live Nation came as the company is
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