Overview

• Plaintiffs Shelby Elston and her fiancé, Cain Webb, filed a personal-injury lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the Rose Bowl Operating Company and alleged attacker Julio Cesar Lopez Zavala.
• The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages and claims understaffed, undertrained security allowed the attack to continue for minutes without guards stepping in.
• Elston’s attorney says she briefly stopped breathing during the beating before Webb performed CPR, and the complaint cites medical costs, lost wages, emotional distress and possible neurological injury.
• Pasadena officials say the venue’s safety resources are robust and have characterized the incident as a one-off, while the Rose Bowl declined to comment because of pending litigation.
• Video of the attack spread online and public tips aided police, who arrested Zavala on Aug. 21; he pleaded not guilty on Aug. 25 to two felony assault counts, and the criminal case remains active.