Thursday, June 22, 2006

Negligence in NOLA

In what I assume is a sure sign that things are slowly getting back to normal in New Orleans, a NOLA club, Utopia, is being sued for negligence which lead to the death of jazz pianist, Hector Ruiz. According to the suit filed by Ruiz's sister, the musician was brutally beaten in the club on May 19th by another attendee and then thrown out by the club's security. Ruiz later suffered a fall which left him unconscious. He never regained consciousness.

As I mentioned in my blog post about the Great White case, I am very nervous about these negligence cases being brought against venues and individuals. This is not say that as soon as you cross the threshhold of a club, the club should be completely absolved of any responsibility, but I don't think that a precedent should be established where clubs get punished every time a couple of bonehead junior high drop outs make a bad call. Anyway, I will reserve more judgment until I get further details on the case, but as a person who has been to New Orleans ( a place of rampant alcoholism with the motto 'Let The Good Times Roll') many times, I'm feeling pretty certain that this may be nothing more than an unfortunate mistake.

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