@tsarstepan,
That you can use the legal system to extort money from a company doesn't make it any less than extortion. The law in Colorado says that the loser pays. Maybe if the lawyers paid the $700k they would think twice about filing frivolous lawsuits. Part of me feels for the families. Part of me feels that just because they were hurt, that doesn't give them a pass to try to hurt someone else. I guess some will argue that Cinemark is not a someone, it is a something, but the principle is the same.