Judge gives the OK for victims to sue century theater

[XC700116]

XC700116, I agree with you. If I were on the jury, there is no easy I'd assign responsibility to the movie theater, for exactly the reasons you stayed. Someone was willfully negligent, the movie theater could not reasonably forsee the event, and had no opportunity to know ahead of time. That doesn't protect them from a lawsuit though; they'll just have to prove their case. I think this whole thing will end up boiling down to the exit for being used as an entrance.

Possibly, but the only thing I can think of on the exit that may even remotely be a consideration is that it apparently wasn't an alarmed exit, ie able to use it without bringing a lot of attention to it's use. That is IMO about the only thing that could be considered an oversight by the theater, and it's pretty weak IMO. Part of my point revolves around the fact that Rucker pointed out, and you mention here, that it's unreasonable to foresee and therefore protect against such an event, and this Judge did a HUGE disservice by allowing this lawsuit to move forward. That's not to say that he did anything that hasn't unfortunately become common place and expected in today's society.

Along with that, supporting such a lawsuit in general terms as a pro 2A point, is a fallacy of logic as I've previously pointed out.

Our justice system has become another self feeding and self supporting monster of bureaucracy. Decisions like this, by judges like this, only serve to feed that bureaucracy and litigation lawyers at the expense of the victims, both the theater and the patrons.