Essay: Why $US73 million Sandy Hook settlement is unlikely to unleash a flood of lawsuits against gun-makers
In an article first published on The Conversation, TIMOTHY D LYTTON, a US law professor, looks at the broader ramifications of an historic $US73 million settlement for families of the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012…
US gun makers say Mexico’s lawsuit represents “clash of national values”
Boston, USReuters Gun makers including Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co on Monday asked a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the Mexican government accusing them of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels, leading to thousands of deaths. The gun manufacturers in a brief told a federal judge in Boston that […]