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This makes me smile
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Yes and no.
Of course you look at the precedent, but in any complicated case as grievous and shattering as this, you have to keep your toolkit wide open and look at everything, said Josh Koskoff, a Bridgeport attorney who last week made national news by calling on rifle maker Daniel Defense to provide information about its marketing, especially to teens and children and about the gun companys communications with the Uvalde shooter. The Sandy Hook playbook is part of it, but you dont want to start out with tunnel vision because you can miss whats right in front of you.......
Koskoff and a team of Texas lawyers who are representing the parents of a slain Uvalde fourth-grade girl in many ways drew the battle lines last week for a legal fight with Georgia-based Daniel Defense. The parents lawyers called on the company to turn over information relevant to your marketing of AR-15 style rifles to teens and children; to your incitement and encouragement of the assaultive use of these weapons; to your on-line purchase system; and to your communications, on any platform, with the Uvalde shooter; and to your awareness of the prior use of AR-15 style rifles in mass shootings......
In Connecticut, where nine families sued Remington for unlawful marketing of the AR-15-style rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre, Koskoff attorneys were seeking Remingtons internal marketing documents right up to February, when the defunct manufacturers four insurance companies offered to the families all they had left after two Remington bankruptcies $73 million.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)If deaths can't persuade state/federal action....maybe financial impacts will change minds.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Rec
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Meowmee
(5,164 posts)It is going to have to be way more than 74 mil to make a dent in the actions of those who are libel such as gun manufacturers and sellers.
Calculating
(2,957 posts)Suing manufacturers over intentional product misuse is a terrible precedent IMO.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,554 posts)Calculating
(2,957 posts)What laws did DD or the gun store break here?
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)and young teenage boys so perhaps the lawsuit will include that aspect ot it.
kcr
(15,320 posts)to drunk drivers, then yes. Absolutely.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)ColinC
(8,329 posts)Hopefully between the work of all the good people, we can put a stop to this.
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crickets
(25,983 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)manufacturers -- the closer we get to slowing the growing blood flood in this country of 20,000,000 body blasters.
Even if the manufacturers try the Alex Jones slow roll of bankruptcies, lawyers have to get to the source, put them out of business. And stop assault weapon imports from the EU.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I believe he will represent at least some of the parents of the children who were killed, as well, when all is said and done.
I hope they own that smarmy mouthed mayor, Don McLaughlin. Hes hiding facts from these families.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Sue Daniel Defense into bankruptcy. Marketing military type weapons to children is beyond the pale of reason.