Graves v. Warner Bros.

Defendants appeal as of right from the entry of judgment in the amount of $29,332,686 following the jury’s verdict in plaintiffs’ favor in this wrongful death action. We reverse the judgment, *488vacate the court’s order, and remand for entry of a judgment and order in favor of defendants, holding that under the circumstances defendants owed no legally cognizable duty to protect plaintiffs’ decedent from the homicidal acts of a third party.

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The instant case has its origins in the tragic murder of plaintiffs’ decedent, Scott Amedure, in March of 1995 by Jonathan Schmitz, who was ultimately…