On 19 March 2015, the Hon. Thomas A. Dickerson, writing for eturbonews.com, penned an article titled, “Primer on hotel law: The common law – duty to protect guests from others.” In it, Dickerson comments on past precedents in the U.S. – specifically cases such as Shadday v. Omni Hotels Management Corp. (2007), which deals with the liability of hotels regarding rape or assault of its guests. While this is focused on crime, the application to terror cases is obvious. Read Dickerson’s highly useful article here.
3 January 2025, New Orleans terror attack – four hotels were directly threatened, 8 others were on the terrorist’s reconnaissance route
The attack 11 Alive reports that on 1 January 2025, at approximately 3:15 am, an ISIS terrorist drove a rented Ford F-150 pickup truck down