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First Trial Over Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival Delayed By Apple’s Free Speech Claims

Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival -- the first trial over the deadly crowd crush has been delayed due to Apple's free speech claims.

Collectively seeking billions in potential damages, the victims claim that Scott (real name Jacques Bermon Webster II), Live Nation and many others were legally negligent in how they planned and conducted the festival. “Allowing plaintiffs to pursue Apple under state tort law for exercising its free speech rights would have a significant chilling effect,” the company wrote last month in a motion. In a Wednesday motion seeking to dismiss the appeal and stick to the trial date, they argued that Apple was no more shielded by the First Amendment than a Houston television station “whose news van negligently crashes into a pedestrian while covering a story.”

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