Lord, Bissell & Brook Announces Dismissal for Midway Home Entertainment Inc. in Columbine Suit.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2002 On March 4, Lewis Babcock, the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, dismissed Midway Home Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Chicago-based Midway Games Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) (formerly Midway Manufacturing) is an American video game publisher. Midway's legacy includes landmark titles such as Ms. Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Mortal Kombat, and NBA Jam. Inc., and other video game and movie defendants from a suit filed by the family of David Sanders, a teacher killed during the Columbine High School Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and half a mile south of the Denver city/county line. shootings on April 20, 1999. The suit alleged that Sander's death resulted from the shootings by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were the high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre. They killed 13 people and injured 24 others. and that their actions had been influenced by the violent content of video games and movies. Gerald Sweeney and John Williams, of the Chicago-based law firm of Lord, Bissell & Brook, represented Midway Home Entertainment Inc., a leading publisher of interactive home video games. "It is the result we expected based on an earlier decision rendered by the U.S. District Court in Paducah, Kentucky which we received in a similar case involving the Michael Carneal shootings at Heath High School Heath High School may refer to either of the following high schools in the United States:
In both cases, the courts reached the conclusion that the video game and movie defendants owed no duty to the plaintiffs, the intangible ideas in movies and video games are not products, and the criminal acts of the shooters were the superseding cause superseding cause n. the same as an "intervening cause," or "supervening cause," which is an event which occurs after the initial act leading to an accident, and substantially causes the accident. of the deaths. Founded in 1914, Lord, Bissell & Brook serves national and international clients from offices in Atlanta, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . For additional information about Lord, Bissell & Brook contact the firm at 312.443.0700 or visit their Web site at www.lordbissell.com. |
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