The families of two high school students who died in the tragic Parkland shooting earlier this year are pushing to sue the maker of the gun used in the massacre, accusing manufacturers of being in a “protected class.”
I was going to rant once again on the stupidity that lawyers seem to keep repeating by convincing parents that they will go far with these lawsuits only to leave the hanging with the bills when they lose.
But I caught the name if the lawyer representing the parents: Julie Braman Kane. A quick check in the internet reveals she is a Personal Injury Lawyer located in Coral Gables (where all the Law Firms seem to congregate in Miami. No Mos Eisley jokes, please) and working with a very successful firm, but also she was till last year the president of the American Association of Justice, formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America or in plain English the lawyers that unkind people would refer to as “ambulance chasers.” They are a lobby group opposed to tort reform and according to the WaPo “ a trial lawyers group that serves as one of the Democratic Party’s most influential political allies”
Having a penthouse in Alhambra Circle in Coral Gables is not a small monetary feat, having the name of the firm displayed in the building does not come cheap. These are heavy political and financial hitters that will not charge cheap and they are not going after McDonalds of Big Tobacco and they know it so…
Who is paying the bill?
This sort of lawsuit has been tried before….and failed. I am not sure but I think it went to the supreme court. If this was successful then it would mean you could sue any and every one. The manufacturer can not be held responable for the misuse of their tool. If so GM Ford Chyrsler and Budwieser would be out of business..another grandstander lookin for attention
Who’s paying the bill?
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Could it be….could it be…
….satan-bloomie?
Julie Braman Kane could be hoping that she opens up a brand new source of lawsuits and income for the ambulance chasing set. Sue the deep pocket gun makers and the deep pocket firearms retailers. Everyone knows they are evil murderers /sarc.
Of course that didn’t work out for the families that sued Lucky Gunner after that looney tune shot up the Gun Free Zone Movie Theater in Colorado. They ended up getting stuck with the legal bills from LG defending itself. Billionaire Bloomberg and his fellow gun-grabbers were no where to be found when the bill came due.
These poor families will be victimized again, first by the incompetence of Broward County Schools and Sheriff, and again by the politicized lawyers looking to make a buck and a political point.
These idiots are barking at the wrong tree. They should be suing the Broward Coward Sheriff Israel, the county, the county school board and guvnor Voldermor (in that order) for completely screwing up the pooch on Parkland and the continued lies and evasion when asked about what happened and if it could have been avoided.
And speaking of lies and evasion in Broward, here’s the latest turd to float to the surface:
“Deputy Peterson Accused Of ‘Covering Up’ Alleged Sexual Assault By Broward Sheriff’s Son”
https://www.local10.com/news/local-10-investigates/parents-call-for-investigation-into-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-assault-involving-sheriffs-son
“Deputy ‘Coward’ Peterson accused of covering up alleged sexual assault on 14-year-old by Sheriff Israel’s son”
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/05/25/bombshell-deputy-coward-peterson-accused-of-covering-up-alleged-sexual-assault-on-14-year-old-by-sheriff-israels-son/
This is IMHO pure politics. They have to somehow bypass both Federal and State Lawful Commerce laws to win.
What they are trying to do is send the store and S&W to the poorhouse with legal fees. The parents simply have to declare bankruptcy and skate free.
The process is the penalty. Even when (not if) the suit gets kicked ou of court, the longer it drags out the better, the defendants will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars defending against a nonsense law suit. The goal is to force the retailer out of business, and to make the other retailers and manufacturers decide it isn’t worth the hassle to make and sell firearms.
Lawful commerce in firearms act pretty much says this lawsuit is dead on the vine. But…
Here is the strategy.
Initiate this lawsuit. Get it tossed out, but without any kind of prejudice. (Wonder if a judge in Broward County FL would do that?) Appeal. Appeal again. Appeal to the Supreme Court. (Here’s the wishful thinking part) Get a liberal Supreme Court decision that negates the Lawful Commerce in Firearms Act.
Boom. No gun manufacturer will take the chance of getting sued and losing, no gun seller will take that chance either. A de facto ban on any new guns in the US. 50% of the goal is achieved.
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Sooner or later someone is going to grow some balls and attempt to sue the big funders of these suits.
It’s not actually the plaintiffs bringing suit, it’s the deep pockets of the gun control millionaires. They’re using the idiot plaintiffs as a means to prevent from having to pay the costs of losing.