Beaton is a partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, where he co-chairs the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice group. After law school, he was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Former classmate Mason Cosner, who spoke during the court hearing, recalled recovering from the damage of a bullet tearing through the left side of his face, shattering his jaw and permanently damaging one of his arteries.
The lawsuit alleges the dispatch director was working out of a separate office in the courthouse but did not tell his employees it was because he was concerned the virus would spread in the dispatch center.
The dispatcher said she wasn't informed until later that she had worked in close proximity to someone who had a family member who tested positive for COVID-19.