The legal battle raging over the gag order that has muzzled lawyers representing Astroworld victims and attendees but not Travis Scott himself intensified Friday when the father of the deadly concert’s youngest victim asked a Texas judge to either pull the rap musician under the case’s cone of silence or “rescind” the order altogether.
In a new filing obtained by Rolling Stone, Treston Blount, the dad whose 9-year-old son Ezra Blount was one of the 10 victims to die from Astroworld crowd crush injuries last November, argues for the...
In a new filing obtained by Rolling Stone, Treston Blount, the dad whose 9-year-old son Ezra Blount was one of the 10 victims to die from Astroworld crowd crush injuries last November, argues for the...
- 3/11/2022
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
Update (3/10): Travis Scott’s lawyers filed new paperwork Thursday defending the embattled musician’s right to “make public statements about his ongoing philanthropic work, even as it relates to public safety.”
In their response to a motion filed by a plaintiff’s attorney Wednesday, the lawyers said it would be “overly broad” for the judge overseeing the hundreds of Astroworld lawsuits to include Scott in the gag order now governing lawyers in the combined master case.
“It also runs afoul of the First Amendment, which guarantees parties like Mr.
In their response to a motion filed by a plaintiff’s attorney Wednesday, the lawyers said it would be “overly broad” for the judge overseeing the hundreds of Astroworld lawsuits to include Scott in the gag order now governing lawyers in the combined master case.
“It also runs afoul of the First Amendment, which guarantees parties like Mr.
- 3/10/2022
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
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