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S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

Update: 2025-03-241
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As the audience was settling in for an evening of entertainment in one of the swankiest nightclubs in the Midwest, a busboy approached the mic and asked everyone to exit the sprawling building. Soon, the place was engulfed. The May 28, 1977, fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club was a deadly disaster that subsequent investigations found was not only preventable, but had been predicted, too. The lawsuits that followed changed the landscape of class-action litigation in America.



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S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

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