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A Mass Shooting at a Mansion Party — and the Legal Questions That Followed If your family member was one of the five people killed at a Halloween mansion party held at an Airbnb-rented home in Orinda, Contra Costa County, California, the months and years after the shooting have been a blur of grief, criminal proceedings, news coverage, and a creeping realization that the company whose logo was on the rental app, the host whose name was on the lease, and the promoter who organized the gathering all had a role in what happened on that night — and may owe your family accountability under California law. You are not imagining it. The civil justice system in California is built for exactly this kind of case. A wrongful-death claim under California Code of Civil Procedure § 377.60 allows specific heirs to recover the financial and human losses a death causes. A premises-liability claim under California’s foreseeability standard (the Rowland v. Christian framework) can hold a property owner responsible when foreseeable criminal conduct on the premises causes harm. A negligent-security claim reaches the host who turned a single-family home into a “mansion party” venue and failed to provide the security the…