Travis Scott’s lawyers are asking a judge to nix one of the lawsuits against him as the Houston rapper believes he shouldn’t be held liable for the tragedy at his ‘Astroworld’ festival.
The rapper just filed legal docs against Jessie Garcia, who alleges he was in the crowd during the festival. Travis is issuing a “general denial,” which is a legal term in civil suits that allows one to submit one blanket response to all the allegations against them. In laymen’s terms, Travis denies any responsibility for the injuries suffered and wants the judge to toss out this and other similar lawsuits last week. There was a motion filed to combine all 275 cases that have been filed thus far into one “multi-district litigation,” which would consolidate many of the suits, according to TMZ. Travis Scott is asking for this to combine each case into just one case since most of the cases filed against Scott are very similar. At least we know now that Scott denies any fault for the Astroworld tragedy.
On Monday, Scott — via his attorneys and referred to by his legal name Jacques B. Webster II — filed a response to 11 lawsuits naming the rap star as a defendant regarding the Astroworld Festival event in Houston last month that left 10 people dead and hundreds injured. PEOPLE obtained six of the 11 responses, each of which was nearly identical.
In the filings, Scott and his company “generally deny the allegations” made in the lawsuits, and “respectfully request that the claims against these Defendants be dismissed with prejudice,” the response read. “And that these Defendants be granted such other and further relief, both at law and in equity, to which they are entitled.”
Scott, 30, and his company Cactus Jack Records, LLC are being represented by law firms O’Melveny & Myers, Yetter Coleman and Tribble | Ross in the more than 200 lawsuits that name him as a defendant.
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