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MGM Resorts Sues 1,000 Victims of Las Vegas Shooting, Seeking to Avoid Liability

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MGM Resorts International, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, wants a federal court to rule that it can’t be held liable for a mass shooting last year in which the gunman used one of its rooms.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

By Richard A. Oppel Jr.

• July 17, 2018
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Faced with potential lawsuits from hundreds of victims of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, MGM Resorts International is trying an untested strategy: suing the victims first.

The company’s aggressive legal approach, which stirred outrage on social media Tuesday, turns on an interpretation of federal law that one of MGM’s own lawyers admits he discovered only a few weeks ago, and which has apparently never before been used to try to shield a company from liability.

MGM is not suing for money, but the company wants a federal court to rule that it cannot be held liable for the shooting by more than 1,000 victims and others it named in the suits. The company said it named only people that have already sued or given notice that they intend to do so.

MGM owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, where, on Oct. 1, from a room on the 32nd floor, Stephen Paddock shot and killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others attending a country music concert below. It was the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

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