Clark County jury awards $56.5 million to Navy veteran in Las Vegas Strip assault case

A Clark County jury awarded $56.5 million to Omar Alrabadi after finding Caesars Entertainment and Three Amigos Restaurant Group equally liable for a 2021 assault at Chayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar on the Las Vegas Strip.

A Clark County jury awarded $56.5 million to Alrabadi on Aug. 7 after a three-week trial in Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, according to a PR Newswire report published Aug. 25. The report said jurors assigned zero fault to Alrabadi and split liability equally between Caesars Entertainment and Three Amigos Restaurant Group, LLC.

According to the report, Alrabadi is a U.S. Navy veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being beaten unconscious.

The report says the attack happened in the early morning hours of July 31, 2021. It says Chayo security confronted Alrabadi and his group inside the restaurant, forcibly removed them, and that a security guard kicked Alrabadi's cousin in the head before pushing Alrabadi toward two unidentified men who attacked him.

The report says the men chased Alrabadi across the LINQ Promenade and into the Flamingo Las Vegas, where he was knocked unconscious and stomped on several times. It says the blows fractured his skull and caused hemorrhaging in his brain.

PR Newswire also reported that the head of Chayo security testified he did not call 911 after seeing Alrabadi unconscious, no police report was filed that night, and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrived about 14 minutes later. The report said the two attackers were never identified.

The source said defense lawyers initially disclosed only a handful of low-quality surveillance videos and later produced 1,013 previously undisclosed videos. The court excluded that late-disclosed material, and jurors were allowed to infer that the withheld footage would have been harmful to the defendants, according to the report.

The article quoted attorney Kimball Jones as saying,