
Civil Trial Looms for Baldwin Over Rust Shooting Negligence
A judge ordered Alec Baldwin to proceed to a civil trial in October over alleged negligence for firing a gun on the Rust set, allowing Serge Svetnoy’s emotional-distress claim and other negligence and punitive-damages claims to move forward, even as Baldwin’s manslaughter case was dismissed in 2024 and Rust Movie Productions argued about set-safety liability; the Oct. 12 trial date could test whether Baldwin, the production, or both are deemed responsible for the fatal 2021 shooting on the Santa Fe set.













