{"id":291055,"date":"2014-02-07T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=291055"},"modified":"2014-02-09T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:17:35","slug":"lawsuit-filed-against-bar-after-alcohol-poisoning-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=291055","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Filed against Bar after Alcohol Poisoning Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=291100\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-291100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/thumb_Lady-Justice2.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Lady-Justice\" width=\"88\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-291100\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 A popular Longview bar could be in some hot water after having a $1-million lawsuit filed against it.  Gerald&#8217;s Martini Bar is being sued by Wesley and Cindy Bickerdike of Longview after their son, Brian, died in December from alcohol poisoning   The Bickerdikes tell KETK employees of Gerald&#8217;s served their son until the point he became overly intoxicated and was clear danger to himself and others.  Brian, who was 25 at the time of his death, had a blood alcohol level of .479, almost six times the legal limit, when he died on December 14.  The bar&#8217;s owner, Gerald Rodriguez, refused to comment on the lawsuit.  Court documents obtained by KETK show Rodriguez is denying all allegations and responsibility in Bickerdike&#8217;s death. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Records show Bickerdike was helped out of the downtown hot spot by his friends around 2:00 a.m. December 14 and arrived at the home of Brandon Pritchett around 2:30 a.m. A few hours later, when Pritchett checked on Brian, he was not breathing, and EMS was called.  The lawsuit alleges Gerald&#8217;s acted with malice and \u201cconscious indifference to the rights, safety or welfare of others.\u201d   The Bickerdikes have requested a jury trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 A popular Longview bar could be in some hot water after having a $1-million lawsuit filed against it. Gerald&#8217;s Martini Bar is being sued by Wesley and Cindy Bickerdike of Longview after their son, Brian, died in December from alcohol poisoning The Bickerdikes tell KETK employees of Gerald&#8217;s served their son until the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=291055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawsuit Filed against Bar after Alcohol Poisoning Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 06:33:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291101,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291055\/revisions\/291101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}