This is WRONG! This girl took that drug on her on free choice. Parents need to warn young girls about parties, drugs, and tequila for they will lose their soul and it's a hard way back - that 's if they come from love - and there is no way back for the one's who don't...that is literally in God's Hands. There are no guarantees in life, and no one is responsible for another's choice - one more year wouldn't have made a difference....or would it have? I don't think so - it was her destiny, obviously. this is people capitalizing on the death of their child. Can't SUE the Person who gave it to her, but go after the people who hosted this event - and isn't most people on DRUGS THERE ANYWAY - no matter the age???

Blame everyone but Mom and Dad... The REAL people responsible. Let me guess they can't speak English and didn't know were she was going or who she was going with or what she was going to take once she got their.

I can't figure why they didn't sue the shoe makes who made the shoes she was wearing. If it wasn't for those shoes she wouldn't have walked to get the x!

I hope the lawyers took it all...

This is a half-asked story. Much of this article is about the L.A. Coliseum Commission. What about the people that accompanied the young lady into the concert? Who provided the drugs? Why was she allowed inside in the first place? So much more could have been addressed. I'm guessing that the family just wanted to let their daughter 'Rest In Peace'.

After lawyers skim their 40% off of $190,000, the family might be able to fix up the home, buy some amenities and a new car, but will always be plagued by who? what? and why?

I cannot believe drugs would even be taken at a concert called The Electric Daisy Carnival. Sounds totally innocent, I'm sure she was the only one tripping, you know the one bad apple.

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So because the teenage girl snuck ectasy into the rave the people who held the rave are responsible? How about the parents of the girl? Apparently they never had a conversation with their daughter about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. I am so feed up with all these people suing others when the actual fault lays with them.

It is hard to believe that people (kids which includes those up to age 25) still do not understand that unless you are prescribed a "bona fide" prescription drug, you should not take any drugs which have no quality control, no way to tell the dosage, no information on allergies, no precautions on mixing drugs. It is overwhelming to see how the United States of America has accelerated its decline and inevitable fall since the year 1963. The highest point for this country was during the presidency of John F Kennedy. With his assasination, the Vietnam war suddenly became a "Hot" war, the hippies were born and increasing drug use. The stores used to be closed on sundays except for perhaps a single drug store. If you did not get your food shopping done on saturday then you had to wait until monday morning. We had no cell phones, no personal computers, no laptops, no GPS gadgets, we always had a small drug problem of heroin but it was for down and out addicts and those who could afford it. Marijuana was limited to the hollywood types and the beatniks. I never knew a single person who took drugs in my high school. That was in 1965 when I graduated. I knew of one who discovered drugs and used to come to the drug store to buy terpin hydrate to get a high. But you had to sign a book to buy a bottle of it. I never heard any four letter words on any TV show. The only pornography widely available was Playboy and Adam magazine but there were no peep shows or adult book stores. There also was no legalized abortions. Condoms or prophylactics were not on display, they were in a drawer behind the counter and you had to ask for them. There were no Early Pregnancy Test kits avaialble. If people were gay, you often never knew it. No one advertised it. There was no No fault divorce. There were a lot more families with two parents than single parent families. It is as though there has been another american revolution in the past 45 years and it spells the end of a country that was once looked upon as the leading country in the world. You could but tools made in the USA, autoparts, vaporizers, clothing, pet food, almost anything and it was usually of high quality. Now its hard to buy anything that isnt of poor quality ,made with well worn out machine tools ,from china. Are we better off than we were 45 years ago? I think not. Hardly anyone heard of genital herpes 45 years ago. If a high school girl became pregnant she went to a school often run by a religious community and gave the baby up for adoption, Aids was a weight reduction candy (actually it was spelled AYDS). Because of the name they had to go out of business. We have one out of two marriages breaking up and among devout christians its also one out two marriages. We were far more physically fit compared to the obesity problem we have now. We had far fewer fast food joints and far fewer shopping malls that has become the national pasttime. People eat at these malls or near them rather than have a sit down dinner at home. We used to have a law forbidding the purchase of any items from Communist Chiina, North Vietnam, the Soviet Union or any Warsaw Pact country. Now its as if we are a "colony of Communist China". We have no choice but to buy what they import here , the alternative is to scrounge garage sales for US made tools if you can even find them. We have very serious unemployment problem now and it shows no sigh of abatement. No President or Presidentail candidate is going to create jobs when the jobs we had here have all been shipped to China and India. People cannot find a customer service job since many of them have been shipped to India and the Phillipines and elsewhere. No one trusts the stock market anymore since it caters to the rich and every offering seems geared to allowing the insiders and institutional investors make their quick profits and leave the small investors holding low value or worthless stock while the program traders and insiders have made all the easy money. The USA has essentially a "consumer driven economy" , if there is high unemployment, how can we expect people to buy consumer goods and services unless they have an income? There was no justification for starting a war with Iraq which only destabilzied the area and accomplished nothing except to give the USA a $ trillion dollar war debt.

FU to the parents. The company should appeal this nonsense. So can I sue my university if I get in a car accident while trying to make it to a final exam? I don't see why not. Where is the culpability of the individual in this equation?

extasy is controlled by israeli mafia,and has been manufactured in goa india and imported to usa in big quantity,it is controlled from south florida,fisher island and sunny island beach,it is made in a very dirty environment,perhaps if we have big tragedy federal law will come........or they will get small dealers or victims.....

Just goes to show how the loss of personal responsibility is hurting our nation. Nowadays, you can sue anybody for anything - even if it's your fault. What happened to the days of "oh no, I messed up?" Now it's "lemme see who I can blame for this one." This promoter was stupid for paying anything to that family who thought their daughter's life was worth a couple hundred grand at most.

A lot of ecstasy is smuggled in through amsterdam by--look it up.

What other country has a big ecstasy problem in the middle east?

Who has been caught smuggling ecstsay into this country, mainly from Amsterdam?

If I was the rave, I would sue the parents back for allowing their 15 year old to sneak into my rave and overdose.

What a crock; reward a family who obviously did nothing to teach their kid about the dangers of drugs. Too bad the little @!$%# died, but, luckily, this removes one more defect out of the gene pool.

If the parents are going to sue the coliseum for their daughter sneaking into the rave, doing drugs and dying, then THEY should be sued by the coliseum for not parenting their under aged daughter and letting her out late at night to break into events and do drugs.

Soooo, let me get this straight. Kid either has permission to go to a rave, in which case: her parents should have informed her about E and any other of the "candies" prior to and how dangerous they can be, ooooor, she sneaks out and does it. Either way- kid is stupid, kid dies. Kid is stupid because her parents are stupid. End of. Parenting fail.

...but kid's stupidity leads to exposure of bigger schemes? You know, initially I was facepalming because there's absolutely no reason the parents should have gotten anything but a lecture on parenting.
...Tort law needs to be reformed in a HUGE way- we're suing all over the place these days because we don't WANT to be held accountable for our own failures. And this was definitely not promoter or event holder fail.

But I find it also interesting that this case hits and then....they get busted for bigger crimes? Starting to look a bit like an episode of SVU here.

"The only thing $190,000 settles is which side had better lawyers,” LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who sits on the panel, said in a statement. “Unfortunately, this settlement compounds the tragic death of Sasha Rodriguez."

Can you say "TORT Reform"??

As long as we can sue for what amounts to Darwinism in action- I want my prehensile tail back.

Only in the US....Do something stupid and blame someone else for it.

It is the parents' fault for not knowing what their daughter was doing! My daughter just turned 18, is graduating from High School. I have always known where she was and who she was with. Parents need to PARENT.

This is exactly what happenes when the so called Parents don't give a crap where their childern are. Or who they are doing it with. Thats what happens when the Parents give their childern too much FREDOM. That they should not have at such a young age.

So let me get this right....

She snuck in, she did the drugs and it is someone else s fault she is dead????

When I opened this article, I thought that surely this was an article about someone slipping her the drug or forcing her to take it. But a concert/rave promoter sued for a young girl sneaking into the rave and taking an illegal drug? If everyone sued for that, the Grateful Dead would be negative billions of dollars in the hole and every concert promoter on the planet would be sued for people drinking and driving after, drugs overdose, etc. Why don't we also sue for anyone that has sex at a concert or rave and gets pregnant. It happens all the time and it's surely the promoter's fault according to this logic. Soon parents will also be suing if they notice their kid getting fat because she sneaks out and eats McDonalds at 1:00 am.

Hey. Why not take responsibility for teaching your kid to say no to drugs and watching where they go and what they are doing. I understand kids are sneaky, but to blame a rave promoter is just ludicrous.

To those who commented, thanks- so much interesting and often funny stuff, but funny in a somewhat constructive way.

I would jail all these creeps who sell ketamine, ecstacy, PCP, LSD, meth, etc. Ketamine has become big in northeast, including Syracuse, NY area. It can get very expensive. I would like to kneecap ("IRA term") those who sold my daughter ketamine. These are all dangerous drugs. Ecstacy is a designer amphetamine that in some people can permanently damage neural connections thus affecting serotonin and mood, and also, this ketamine is nothing to be played with.

Michael Jackson got done in on too much propofol.