RUST ADW SUIT CUT DOWN BY JUDGE

By Bob Walsh

 

            "Hello mom, what should I do? A gun they handed me just up and shot dead my cinematographer."

 

 

Judge Michael E. Whitaker of the Los Angeles Superior Court has determined that the lawsuit filed by Mamie Mitchell, script supervisor, has failed to establish that the people who physically handed Alec Baldwin a live weapon knew that Baldwin would in fact aim and fire that weapon.  Had Mitchell been able to do so she could have established some level of joint liability on the part of the producers.  

The production companies involved are Rust Movie Productions LLC and Thomasville Pictures LLC, among others.  

The judge asserted that "The only person who knew Baldwin was going to fire the weapon was Baldwin."  The judge thereby dismissed Mitchell's claim of "intentional infliction of emotional distress and assault and battery."  Baldwin is still personally a defendant in the lawsuit.  

Mitchell was injured by the one shot that was fired in the incident.  That bullet killed the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.