JOSEPH P. GANIM ET AL.
v.
SMITH AND WESSON CORPORATION ET AL.
Supreme Court of Connecticut.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 21, 2001.
Officially released October 9, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bourke G. Spellacy, with whom were Barbara Frederick and, on the brief, Richard S. Order, Robert M. DeCrescenzo, Robert R. Simpson, Mark T. Anastasi, Dennis A. Henigan, pro hac vice, Brian J. Siebel, pro hac vice, Jonathan E. Lowy, pro hac vice, Ruchi Bhowmik, pro hac vice, and Allen K. Rostron, pro hac vice, for the appellants (plaintiffs).
Lawrence S. Greenwald, pro hac vice, with whom were David J. Elliott, Robert J. Cooney, Timothy G. Atwood, Christopher Renzulli, pro hac vice, J. Michael Sulzbach, Carla Ottaviano, Peter C. Schwartz, pro hac vice, Richard G. Kascak, Jr., Serge G. Mihaly, Charles A. Deluca, Andrew J. Buzzi, Jr., and John Conway, and, on the brief, James P. Dorr, John F. Renzulli, pro hac vice, William M. Griffin III, pro hac vice, Michael C. Hewitt, pro hac vice, Mark K Ostrowski, Thomas E. Fennell, pro hac vice, Timothy A. Bumann, pro hac vice, Charles L. Coleman, pro hac vice, James R. Branit, pro hac vice, Robert L. Joyce, pro hac vice, Gary R. Long, pro hac vice, Jeffrey S. Nelson, pro hac vice, Brian W. Smith, Harold R. Mayberry, Jr., pro hac vice, and Douglas E. Kliever, pro hac vice, for the appellees (defendant Sturm, Ruger and Company, Inc., et al.).
Raymond J. Plouffe, Jr., for the appellees (defendant Scott Moss Gun and Tackle, Inc., et al.).
Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, with whom were Gregory T. D'Auria, associate attorney general, and, on the brief, Stephen R. Park and Perry Zinn-Rowthorn, assistant attorneys general, for the office of the attorney general as amicus curiae.
Borden, Norcott, Palmer, Zarella and Klaczak, JS.
Supreme Court of Connecticut.
Opinion
BORDEN, J.
The dispositive issue of this appeal is whether the plaintiffs, a Connecticut municipality and its mayor, have standing to assert the various causes of action that they have alleged against the defendants, who are various firearms manufacturers, trade associations and retail sellers.1 The plaintiffs, the city of Bridgeport and its mayor, Joseph P. Ganim, in...
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