He was unconscious in the Flamingo doorway. On August 7, a Clark County jury returned $56.5 million and assigned 50 percent fault to Caesars Entertainment, 50 percent to Three Amigos, and none to Alrabadi.
He was unconscious in the Flamingo doorway.
Trial testimony, as described by plaintiff counsel, was that Chayo's security chief saw Omar Alrabadi there and did not call 911. Police arrived about 14 minutes later. Evidence presented at trial showed security personnel told officers they knew of no altercation. No police investigation was opened that night.
On August 7, a Clark County jury returned $56.5 million and assigned 50 percent fault to Caesars Entertainment, 50 percent to Three Amigos, and none to Alrabadi.
July 31, 2021, early morning. Chayo sits on the LINQ Promenade. Security confronted Omar Alrabadi and his group and pushed them out. Footage shown to the jury captured a Chayo guard kicking Alrabadi's cousin in the head while two bouncers held him down, then pushing Alrabadi toward two unidentified men. Those men chased him across the promenade and caught him just inside the Flamingo. They beat him to the ground, knocked him unconscious, and stomped his head six to eight times. Skull fracture. Hemorrhage. Plaintiff's security experts said he was non-violent and trying to flee. The two men have never been identified.
Jurors also saw the two attackers embracing and shaking hands with Chayo security afterward, while Alrabadi lay still. Plaintiff attorneys put about 11,000 calls for service on that corridor in the five years before the attack.
The late-video fight became a liability issue.
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According to evidence presented during the litigation, defendants initially disclosed only a handful of low-quality clips and maintained that no additional footage existed. Months after discovery closed, 1,013 more videos were produced.
The court barred defendants from using the late evidence and allowed jurors to infer that the withheld footage would have hurt Chayo on liability and on its relationship with the attackers.
Alrabadi served eight years in the Navy. The brain injury ended that career. It ended an engineering program. A second try at computer programming went the same way. The jury split the bill. Caesars 50. The bar operator 50. Alrabadi zero. Fifteen million for what already happened. More than $41.5 million for what is still coming.
The case is Alrabadi against Three Amigos Restaurant Group, which runs Chayo, and Caesars, which runs the LINQ Promenade Shops. A-23-874247-C. Three weeks. Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells. The plaintiff trial team was Kimball Jones and Valentina Ortega of Bighorn Law, with Waleed Zaman and Michael Trippiedi of Zaman & Trippiedi. The cameras held the rest.
If you run a Fortune 500 hospitality book, or the insurance company that writes the premises behind the velvet rope, this was not merely a bar fight. It was a negligent-security file shaped by what the cameras showed, what defendants said did not exist, and what arrived after discovery closed.
The current nuclear-verdict tracker runs through June and is not exhaustive. Its median is $61 million. The Caesars verdict arrived in August at $56.5 million.
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