With the number of lawsuits filed in relation to last month’s Astroworld tragedy now topping 275 – involving more than 1250 plaintiffs and with filings in district courts across the Houston area – a motion was filed last week to consolidate and coordinate the pre-trial proceedings in all of the many cases.Ten people died and hundreds more were injured when a crowd surge occurred during Travis Scott’s headline set at the Houston festival he founded.
A criminal investigation is underway to identify what led to the tragedy, being led by the Houston Police Department, while the civil litigation began mounting up within days of the event, with a stack of lawsuits being filed in courts around Harris County, the county in which Houston is.
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