And the first lawsuit...

[Ronin13]

If I'm reading the article right, the person suing wasn't even injured.

No, he walked away without one scratch. He got very lucky. Another reason this lawsuit should fall on it's face, but welcome to America...

I agree that the theater was negligent in regard to the emergency exits. While they, by law, cannot be locked; there is no handle on the outside and they can only be opened from inside via the pushbar. Fire/Emergency exits are frequently alarmed and will sound an alarm when opened . . . these doors were not alarmed. Furthermore, it is not at all uncommon for a patron to purchase one ticket, then go over to the emergency exit and allow several friends inside without paying -- this happens so often that many theaters have an usher standing next to each exit until the show begins and then for 10 minutes or more afterwards. With such a popular movie's premier that was nearly sold out and filled to capacity, those exits should have been guarded at the beginning of the show, which is when this incident occurred. On a weekday afternoon matinee, that is unnecessary, but for a midnight premier it was borderline criminal negligence. That theater will lose the civil suit regarding the exits. The other two lawsuits lack merit and are frivolous.

This is what I was thinking... WHERE WERE THE USHERS? Usually those guys are crawling all over the place. Maybe they had too much going on this night? I don't know.