PENELAS v. ARMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.

No. 3D00-113.

778 So.2d 1042 (2001)

Alexander PENELAS, and Miami-Dade County, Appellants, v. ARMS TECHNOLOGY, INC., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Certification Denied March 21, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, County Attorney, Thomas A. Tucker Ronzetti, Javier Alberto Soto, Assistant County Attorneys; and Dennis A. Henigan, Washington, DC, for appellants.

Hardeman & Suarez, Miami; Friday, Eldredge & Clark and William M. Griffin, III, Little Rock, AR; Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker and James M. Kaplan and Sara J. Sanders; Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickroot and David A. Friedman; Bilzin Sumberg Dunn Price & Axelrod and J. Ronald Denman; Shook, Hardy & Bacon and Thomas M. Sherouse; Angones, Hunter, McClure; Kenny Nachwalter, Seymour, Arnold, Critchlow & Spector, Miami; Gary R. Long and Jeffrey S. Nelson, Kansas City, MO; Paul T. Reid, Wendy Lumish and Carlton Fields, Miami, for appellees.

Lawrence S. Greenwald, Baltimore, MD, for Beretta U.S. Corp. and Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Berretta as pro hac vice.

James P. Dorr, Chicago, IL, for Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., as pro hac vice.

Melissa Anne Maye, Yorkville, IL, for B.L. Jennings, Inc. and Bryco Arms, Inc. as pro hac vice.

Before GERSTEN, GREEN, and FLETCHER, JJ.


FLETCHER, Judge.

Miami-Dade County and its Mayor, Alexander Penelas, [together "County"], filed a complaint against twenty-six federally licensed firearms manufacturers, three firearms trade associations, and two firearms retail dealers, alleging various theories, including negligence, strict liability for defective products, public nuisance, and ultra hazardous activity, in an effort to recover the County's costs of responding...

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