The parents of a 19-year-old college student who fatally overdosed on drugs at a rave at the Los Angeles County fairgrounds last August have filed a lawsuit against the event organizer, Live Nation, and the venue operator, the Los Angeles County Fair Assn.
Filed by Mark and Pamela Dix, the parents of Cal State Channel Islands student Katie Dix, the lawsuit accuses Live Nation and the Fair Assn. of negligence. It alleges that they should have known that the Hard Summer rave would promote “widespread illegal and illicit activity,” such as the use of banned drugs like Ecstasy.
The lawsuit, filed last Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, said the defendants “breached their duties to protect” rave attendees from people distributing or consuming illegal drugs.
The lawsuit also named Los Angeles County, which owns most of the fairgrounds, and the city of Pomona, as defendants. The suit accused them of negligence in creating, or allowing others to create, “a dangerous condition of its public property.”
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