FREDDIE HAMILTON et al., Plaintiffs, and GAIL Fox et al., Respondents,
v.
BERETTA U.S.A. CORP. et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued February 8, 2001.
Decided April 26, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, L. L. C., Baltimore, Maryland (Lawrence S. Greenwald, Nancy E. Paige and Catherine A. Bledsoe of counsel), and Morgan, Melhuish, Monaghan, Arvidson, Abrutyn & Lisowski, New York City (Daniel T. Hughes and Erin A. O'Leary of counsel), for Beretta U.S.A. Corp. and another, appellants.
Budd Larner Gross Rosenbaum Greenberg & Sade, P. C. (Timothy A. Bumann, of the Georgia Bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), and Budd Larner Gross Rosenbaum Greenberg & Sade, P. C., New York City (Christina Fichera Dente of counsel), for Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc., appellant.
Schulte Roth & Zabel, L. L. P., New York City (Marc E. Elovitz, Michael S. Feldberg, Tim O'Neal Lorah and Kefira R. Wilderman of counsel), McHugh & Barnes, P. C. (Elisa Barnes and Monica Connell of counsel), and Weitz & Luxenberg, P. C. (Denise M. Dunleavy of counsel), for respondents.
Pepper Hamilton, L. L. P., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York City (Nina Gussack and James M. Beck of counsel), and Hugh F. Young, Jr., Reston, Virginia, for Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., amicus curiae.
Crowell & Moring, L. L. P., Washington D.C. (Victor E. Schwartz and Mark A. Behrens of counsel), and NationalChamber Litigation Center, Inc. (Robin S. Conrad of counsel), for Chamber of Commerce of the United States, amicus curiae.
Baron & Budd, P. C., Dallas, Texas (Brent M. Rosenthal, Misty A. Farris and Thomas M. Sims of counsel), Frederick M. Baron, Washington D.C., and Jeffrey R. White, for Association of Trial Lawyers of America, amicus curiae.
Legal Action Project, Washington D.C. (Rachana Bhowmik, Dennis A. Henigan, Jonathan E. Lowy, Brian J. Siebel, Allen Rostron and Leslie Klein of counsel), for Center to Prevent Handgun Violence and others, amici curiae.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City (Barry R. Ostrager, Mary Beth Forshaw and Gerald E. Hawxhurst of counsel), and Fiedelman & McGaw, Jericho (Andrew Zajac of counsel), for American Meat Institute and others, amici curiae.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Albany (Preeta D. Bansal, Michael S. Belohlavek, Daniel Smirlock, Daniel Feldman, Natalie Gomez-Velez, Sachin S. Pandya and Adam L. Aronson of counsel), for State of New York, amicus curiae.
Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of New York City (Gail Rubin and Eric Proshansky of counsel), for City of New York, amicus curiae.
Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SMITH, LEVINE, CIPARICK, ROSENBLATT and GRAFFEO concur.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
OPINION OF THE COURT
WESLEY, J.
In January 1995 plaintiffs—relatives of people killed by handguns—sued 49 handgun manufacturers in Federal court alleging negligent marketing, design defect, ultra-hazardous activity and fraud. A number of defendants jointly moved for summary judgment. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Weinstein, J.), dismissed the product liability and fraud causes of action, but retained...
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