Drake Dropped From Astroworld Lawsuits

Drake has actually been rejected from the civil lawsuits submitted versus him, Travis Scott, and numerous others following the 2021 Astroworld disaster, TMZ and Houston’s KPRC 2 records. Stanton “Larry” Stein, a lawyer for Drake, supplied no remark when gotten to by Pitchfork.

The Harris Area, Texas, court looking after the situations, Kristen Brauchle Hawkins, additionally rejected Impressive Records, show marketer ScoreMore, and a lot more entities from the lawsuits, yet did not eliminate other individuals and business that had actually asked for termination, consisting of Travis Scott, Apple Inc., and Live Country Amusement.

The thousands of Astroworld- lawsuits were combined right into one instance, and the test is arranged to start in Might.

Drake took the phase with Travis Scott throughout the Houston rap artist’s headlining efficiency at the Astroworld Event in November 2021. In the days after the occasion, which left 10 individuals dead and hundreds even more damaged, Drake composed, “My heart is broken for the families and friends of those who lost their lives and for anyone who is suffering. I will continue to pray for all of them, and will be of service in any way I can, May God be with you all.”

Drake rested for a deposition in 2015 about the Astroworld lawsuits. In March, he officially asked to be dropped from the lawsuits, saying that he “did not receive any security briefings, was not informed of any crowd control issues, injuries or deaths in the crowd, or any stop show orders at any time either before or during his 14-minute performance.”

The rap artist’s lawyers additionally composed in their ask for termination, “Plaintiffs produce no evidence that [Drake] actually knew of any risk in the Festival site design and layout, competence or adequacy of Festival staffing and personnel, or emergency procedures such as show stop authority.”

Last summertime, a Harris Area grand court decreased to finger Travis Scott about Astroworld.