Faced with potential lawsuits from hundreds of victims of last years mass shooting in Las Vegas, MGM Resorts International is trying an untested strategy: suing the victims first. The companys aggressive legal approach, which stirred outrage on social media Tuesday, turns on an interpretation of federal law that one of MGMs own lawyers admits he discovered only a few weeks ago, and which has apparently never before been used to try to shield a company from liability.
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