City drops its suit against gun makers

The Jersey Journal ^ | Dec 15, 2003 | Jason Fink

[neverdem]

Jersey City has dropped its lawsuit against handgun manufacturers, citing the mounting paperwork associated with the case and what attorneys say are legal deadlines that will be close to impossible to meet.

The decision to voluntarily withdraw the suit, which was filed in state Superior Court in Jersey City in March, comes on the heels of dismissals of similar cases both in New Jersey and nationwide.

[neverdem]

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[isthisnickcool]

Whoever (the city in this case) brought the lawsuit should have to pay all costs associated with the lawsuit, plus penalties. And these costs should be personally reimbursed by whatever knuckleheads authorized the suit.

[stylin_geek]

First tobacco, then guns, and fast food. The booze and auto manufacturers had better be nervous.

[Capitalist Eric]

"We do want to go back to court," Cunningham said last week. "We're looking at all options."

Translation: "the gun manufacturers have deep pockets, and we want to get into those pockets..."

[Blood of Tyrants]

"If you buy a pack of cigarettes, there is a warning that they could be harmful to your health," said Cunningham. "There is no such warning on guns."

If you need to read a message telling you that guns are dangerous bucause you just didn't know it, it would do no good BECAUSE YOU WOULD TOO STUPID TO BE ABLE TO READ!

[Orangedog]

"Rather than pull all the documentation together while the case is ongoing, the city wanted to do it before it refiles," said Brian Siebel, the Brady Center attorney.

The defendants should use this statement to their advantage. I imagine the argument in front of the judge would be "Your Honor, the Plaintiffs the time and resources of my clients and, just as important, the time of this Court with a case that they now admit that they were not prepared for. Now they announce to the press that they have every intention of refiling this case later, wasting more of the Court's valuable time. I motion that the Plaintiff not be allowed to withdraw, that this case be dismissed WITH PREJUDICE, and that my clients me reimbursed for the time and expenses they have incurred because of the incompetence of opposing counsel."

[Blood of Tyrants]

That's why I have advocated expanding protection against lawsuits arising from the illegal use of legal products to all industries. Using the leftwing gun haters logic, I would be able to sue GM and Budweiser if a drunk ran into me with a car.

[neverdem]

BANG

[flashbunny]

Got the translation wrong. Right translations:

"Congress hasn't banned all guns yet, and we know that gun manufacturers don't really make a lot of money. So if we keep harrassing them with pointless lawsuits, maybe we can put them out of business."

[thulldud]

If you need to read a message telling you that guns are dangerous bucause you just didn't know it, it would do no good BECAUSE YOU WOULD TOO STUPID TO BE ABLE TO READ!

What's needed here is a warning label on Hizzoner Glenn Cunningham, and all goofballs that can make such suggestions with a straight face. Not only do they not belong in public office, they need to be kept away from pointy objects as well.

[longtermmemmory]

There is no doubt as to what a gun is or does. Cigarets were represented as smoooth smoking pleasure.

We don't use a forklift to flip an omlette.

[paul51]

"What they're trying to do is make it as burdensome for the city as possible," said Siebel

Yeah, those big meanies.

[epow]

"Congress hasn't banned all guns yet, and we know that gun manufacturers don't really make a lot of money. So if we keep harrassing them with pointless lawsuits, maybe we can put them out of business."

Exactly right. The antis don't expect to win anything by these suits. The lawsuits are designed to kill the firearms industry with death by a thousand cuts, and the tactic is working just as intended.

Every one of those suits costs the industry millions of dollars which it can't afford even if the suit is dismissed. The firearms industry is relatively very small potatoes in the overall industrial picture, and if the gun makers have to continue fighting these baseless lawsuits indefinately the antis will eventually get what they want. In the meantime those of us who buy new firearms are helping pay the legal costs by way of artificially inflated prices. It's a win-win situation for the antis, even when they lose a battle they keep right on winning the war.

The only way to save the American firearms industry is a federal law protecting industry from baseless, harrassing lawsuits. There's such a bill now before congress, but it doesn't seem to be making much headway. For that we can blame the bloodsucking trial lawyers association as much or more than the antis. The law would protect large industries which really do have deep pockets as well as the small firearms industry which doesn't, and that's the very last thing the greedy trial lawyers want to see.

[rllngrk33]

"What they're trying to do is make it as burdensome for the city as possible,"

Seems like they're getting a dose of their own medicine and they don't like it!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA