Jameson Rodgers Allegedly Hit a Fan With a Beer Can – And Court Says Sony Must Face Lawsuit

Country vocalist Jameson Rodgers allegedly hurled a “full, unopened brew can” into a performance assemblage and deed a instrumentality during a 2022 festival connected the Jersey Shore – and an appeals tribunal present says Sony Music indispensable proceed to look the resulting suit filed by the injured woman.

Samantha Haws sued Rodgers, Sony and others, claiming the incidental astatine the 2022 Barefoot Country Music Festival successful Wildwood, NJ, had near her with “severe and imperishable injuries.” She adjacent sued MillerCoors due to the fact that it was a tin of Miller Lite that Rodgers allegedly threw.

Sony wants to beryllium dismissed from the case, arguing that it cannot beryllium sued successful New Jersey due to the fact that it isn’t based successful the authorities and didn’t run the festival. But a little justice denied that petition past twelvemonth – and a New Jersey appeals tribunal upheld that ruling connected Wednesday.

In caller years, there’s been a disturbing inclination of objects being thrown astatine performance performers. NBA YoungBoy stopped a show earlier this period aft fans threw objects, Luke Combs was hit successful the face during a July concert, and Bebe Rexha needed stitches aft being hit with a smartphone, starring to transgression charges against the offender.

But there’s besides been aggregate incidents involving objects thrown by the artists, often resulting successful ineligible action. 50 Cent was sued past year implicit an incidental successful which helium threw a microphone off-stage successful frustration, allegedly hitting a stagehand. Cardi B hurled a mic astatine a instrumentality who threw a portion astatine her astatine a 2023 Las Vegas concert, resulting successful another lawsuit.

In her July 2024 case, Haws claims that Rodgers and/or others “threw full, unopened cans of Miller Lite brew from the signifier into the crowded audience” astatine the Barefoot Festival. She says 1 struck her “violently and without informing successful the caput and facial area,” leaving her with “severe, achy and imperishable bodily injuries.”

Sony, named arsenic a suspect successful the lawsuit due to the fact that Rodgers is signed to Columbia Nashville, instantly moved to exit the case. The institution argued that it didn’t signifier oregon marketplace the festival oregon wage for oregon supply information for it. But a justice said past twelvemonth that Rodgers had potentially performed astatine the festival arsenic Sony’s agent, which could legally enactment the institution connected the hook for his actions.

In Wednesday’s decision, the New Jersey appeals tribunal rejected Sony’s entreaty of that ruling. It said determination was “no error” by the little justice due to the fact that Haws had established a “business narration betwixt Sony and Rodgers related to unrecorded performances” and the statement “would beryllium taxable to circumstantial jurisdiction if Rodgers was acting connected Sony’s behalf astatine the clip Haws was injured.”

The ruling does not mean Sony is liable to Haws, oregon that her allegations volition yet beryllium proven. Inste...