Clark County Jury Awards $56.5 Million to Navy Servicemember Beaten Outside Chayo Mexican Kitchen at the LINQ
After trial: We found no post-trial motion or appeal filed as of October 2026, and plaintiff counsel has said he expects no preserved appellate issues. We could not confirm whether the award has been paid or how the 50/50 fault split affects what each defendant owes.
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In 2021, Omar Alrabadi was beaten unconscious by two men after a dispute that began inside Chayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar and spilled onto the LINQ Promenade in Las Vegas. A Clark County jury found Caesars Entertainment and Three Amigos Restaurant Group each 50 percent responsible for security failures and awarded $56.5 million on August 7, 2026. The award was $15 million in past damages and $41.5 million in future damages. The jury assigned no fault to Alrabadi.
What happened
Omar Alrabadi was at Chayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar at the LINQ Promenade on the Las Vegas Strip in 2021, at a family celebration, when he got into a verbal exchange with another group. He was serving in the U.S. Navy at the time. The argument moved out of the restaurant and into the promenade, where two men beat him until he lost consciousness and kicked him in the head.
The injury was a diffuse axonal traumatic brain injury. He was later honorably discharged from the Navy after eight years of service and gave up his engineering studies, ending a technical career in the service that had been going well.
Pre-trial settlement talks did not resolve the case, and it went to a jury.
His lawsuit, filed in 2023 in the Eighth Judicial District Court, named Caesars Entertainment and Three Amigos Restaurant Group LLC, the company behind Chayo. It claimed that the restaurant's security staff made the confrontation worse instead of calming it, appeared friendly with the attackers beforehand, and then failed to detain them, render aid or call police once Alrabadi was left unconscious. His team also pointed to evidence the defendants had destroyed. The defense acknowledged firing a security guard but argued that an unidentified third party had delivered the blows.
The case was tried before Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells, with opening statements in July 2026. Kimball Jones of Bighorn Law tried it for Alrabadi with Valentina Ortega and with Mike Trippiedi and Wally Zaman of ZT Law Group. Joel Odou and Phillip Tiberi of Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP defended. Courtroom View Network carried the full trial, and the footage remains available through its site.
On August 7, 2026, the jury returned $56.5 million: $15 million in past damages and $41.5 million in future damages. It put 50 percent of the responsibility on Caesars Entertainment and 50 percent on Three Amigos Restaurant Group, and none on Alrabadi.
Jones told reporters that companies that invite the public onto their property cannot look the other way when the people they hire to keep guests safe do the opposite. He also said he did not expect any preserved appellate issues.
Sources
This account is drawn from contemporaneous public reporting and the court record.
- 1.Courtroom View Network, '$56.5M Awarded To Man Injured In Brawl With Caesars Security Staff', August 2026·Archived copy
- 2.KSNV News 3 Las Vegas, 'Jury awards man $56 million for serious injuries from Las Vegas Strip beating', August 2026·Archived copy
- 3.Hoodline, 'Vegas Jury Awards $56.5 Million Over Brain Injury In Chayo Strip Brawl', August 2026·Archived copy
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