Travis Scott performs during 2021 Astroworld Festival at NRG Park on November 05, 2021 in Houston, Texas.The first civil trial for Travis Scott, Live Nation and others over their role in the 2021 disaster at the Astroworld music festival — set to kick off next week — has now been delayed.
Hundreds of people have sued over the Nov. 5, 2021 incident at Astroworld, in which a crowd crush during Scott’s headlining set caused 10 fans to die from compression asphyxia and hundreds of other to sustain injuries. Collectively seeking billions in potential damages, the victims claim that Scott , Live Nation and many others were legally negligent in how they planned and conducted the festival.
The tech giant has strongly denied those claims. In a motion last month demanding to be dismissed from the litigation, Apple argued that simply livestreaming the event doesn’t make the company liable for the disaster: “Apple is not the reason plaintiffs lost their loved one.” In a ruling last month, Judge Hawkins denied that motion, leaving Apple to face the looming trial alongside Scott, Live Nation and the other defendants. So the tech giant filed an immediate appeal with a state appellate court seeking to overturn that ruling – a move that, under Texas state law, imposes an automatic pause on any upcoming trial proceedings.
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