LOS ANGELES --
Attorneys for Alec Baldwin and different producers of the film "Rust" are asking a court docket to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by a script supervisor who was on the set when the actor fatally shot a cinematographer.
In a submitting in Los Angeles Superior Court docket on Monday, the attorneys mentioned the declare by Mamie Mitchell ought to be thrown out as a result of there was no proof that Baldwin or any of the producers supposed hurt. Baldwin was the lead actor and a producer of the impartial movie, a Western.
"Regardless of Plaintiff’s try to label claims as intentional, nothing about Plaintiff’s allegations recommend that any of Defendants deliberately dedicated dangerous conduct," the submitting mentioned.
Mitchell claimed in a lawsuit filed in November that Baldwin ought to have checked the Colt .45 revolver he was holding to verify it didn't embrace dwell ammunition. Baldwin has mentioned the assistant director informed him the gun was "chilly," or secure to make use of and that he didn't pull the set off Mitchell, who mentioned she was within the line of fireside, alleges assault, intentional infliction of emotional misery, and deliberate infliction of hurt and is searching for unspecified damages within the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was wounded when the gun discharged as Baldwin was rehearing on the New Mexico movie set.
Mitchell, who mentioned she was within the line of fireside, alleges assault, intentional infliction of emotional misery, and deliberate infliction of hurt, and is searching for unspecified damages within the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket.
Gloria Allred, Mitchell's legal professional, mentioned on Tuesday that the declare ought to be allowed to proceed.
The producers are "attempting to keep away from explaining their conduct earlier than a choose and a jury in a court docket of regulation," she mentioned in astatement.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles; Enhancing by Invoice Berkrot)
This picture launched by ABC Information exhibits actor-producer Alec Baldwin, left, throughout an interview with Good Morning America co-anchor George Stephanopoulos. (Jeffrey Neira/ABC Information through AP)
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