{"id":438025,"date":"2026-09-16T19:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438025\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:54:13","slug":"texas-justice-seems-open-to-mall-owner-liability-in-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438025\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Justice Seems Open to Mall Owner Liability in Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Property Group, the biggest US mall owner, may need to defend claims it\u2019s liable for a 2023 mass shooting that killed eight and wounded seven others at an open-air outlet center near Dallas, a Texas Supreme Court Justice suggested during oral arguments Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/supreme\/about-the-court\/justices\/justice-debra-lehrmann.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Debra Lehrmann<\/a> indicated an openness to liability for property owners in a mass shooting \u2014 an exception from case precedent that generally holds the owner harmless for unforeseeable criminal conduct on their property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t think we can ignore and pretend this issue is like other issues that have been dealt with when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Property Group, the biggest US mall owner, may need to defend claims it\u2019s liable for a 2023&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70973,76815,2461,32286,36614,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-438025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-discovery","tag-firearm-crime","tag-homicide","tag-law-enforcement-officers","tag-retail-space","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}