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   From: biden.border.pharmaceuticals@nytimes.com   
      
   As an investigation drags on, families of three dead Kansas City Chiefs   
   fans and the party host whose backyard is where the men were found are   
   threatening lawsuits against each other. But attorneys told Fox News   
   Digital that either case would be difficult to win in court.   
      
   David Harrington, 37, Clayton McGeeney, 36, and Ricky Johnson, 38, were   
   discovered frozen and dead behind friend Jordan Willis' home Jan. 9, two   
   days after they watched the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers.   
      
   As the men's families await answers about their loved ones' deaths,   
   Harrington's family intends to file a wrongful death lawsuit.   
      
   "There will be a wrongful death lawsuit, and a private investigator will   
   more than likely be part of that," Jon Harrington told People.   
      
   Tony Kagay, an attorney representing McGeeney's mother and fiancée, told   
   Fox News Digital his clients are also "exploring civil lawsuit options."   
      
   A source close to Willis told Fox News Digital March 11 the HIV scientist,   
   who has since moved out of his Kansas City home and spent a stint in   
   rehab, "has been left with no choice but to consider slander and   
   defamation suits against these families, friends and significant others   
   who have baselessly accused him in a smear campaign on every public forum   
   willing to give them a platform to blame and point fingers."   
      
   The source said Willis "looks forward to having the opportunity to be able   
   to clear his name."   
      
   But attorney Daniel Miller, a former prosecutor in Platte County,   
   Missouri, told Fox News Digital he wouldn't take on either case.   
      
   "It's a hell of a hurdle. I wouldn't represent [Willis] for anything [in   
   this case]. I don't represent people for defamation anyway. You're going   
   to have to have a Johnny Depp-level defamation case, and then you have to   
   find someone you can collect against."   
      
   Fred Tecce, a former federal prosecutor and current attorney based in New   
   York, told Fox News Digital "anybody with a couple hundred dollars can   
   file a lawsuit," but that "filing a lawsuit and winning a lawsuit are two   
   different things."   
      
   "Could they technically file a wrongful death lawsuit? Yes," Tecce said.   
   "[But they would] have to show that somebody did something that was wrong,   
   and that wrong caused a harm. It’s causation. It’s not that they died. You   
   have to show that what they did caused the death."   
      
   Although preliminary autopsy results released to family members showed the   
   presence of marijuana, cocaine and fentanyl in the dead men's systems, it   
   is unclear what caused their deaths.   
      
   "[The results] show that there’s more than one type of drug in their   
   system," Tecce said. "In order to charge the homeowner, you’d have to show   
   … did they get [all the drugs in their systems] from the homeowner? If   
   they only got one, there’s a reasonable doubt as to whether the other   
   drugs killed them."   
      
   Previously, experts have told Fox News Digital that hypothermia combined   
   with drugs the men may have ingested likely caused their deaths.   
      
   James Roswold of Kansas City Accident Injury Attorneys told Fox News   
   Digital that, based on currently available information, he "doesn't see   
   any facts to support a wrongful death claim."   
      
   Even if Willis or Alex Lee, the fifth man who was in the house on the   
   night of the Chiefs game, provided or sold the drugs, it would still be "a   
   challenge to pin any blame from one to another."   
      
   "Let's say we have consenting adults [that] all know what [they're]   
   getting into — they all voluntarily and knowingly take [drugs,]" Roswold   
   said. "It's going to be a challenge to pin any blame from one to another,   
   [unless] one person has superior knowledge of what's in those drugs or   
   where it's coming from."   
      
   If the men ingested the drugs that killed them unknowingly, however, the   
   odds of a successful wrongful death lawsuit would increase.   
      
   "We can go with the crazy scenario where they don't know at all and   
   somebody spikes the punch bowl. Game on, wrongful death," Roswold said.   
   "In terms of the sale, illegal versus legal drugs, I'm going to have to   
   tread lightly, but the wrongful death aspect of it focuses on knowing or   
   unknown ingestion of drugs."   
      
      
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