IN RE FIREARM CASES

Nos. A103211, A105309.

24 Cal.Rptr.3d 659 (2005)

126 Cal.App.4th 959

In re FIREARM CASES. The People, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. Arcadia Machine & Tool, Inc., et al., Defendants and Respondents. [And two other cases.].

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

February 10, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Lerach, Frank J. Janecek, Jr., Michael J. Dowd, Jonah H. Goldstein, San Diego, Patrick J. Coughlin, Ex Kano Sams II, San Francisco, Jason T. Baker, San Jose, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, San Diego, Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney, Don Kass, Deputy City Attorney, City of Los Angeles, Dennis A. Henigan, Brian J. Siebel, Washington, DC, Daniel R. Vice, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Robert J. Nelson, Richard M. Franco, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco, Michael Jenkins, City Attorney, Sayre Weaver; Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Owen J. Clements, Chief of Special Litigation Kristine A. Poplawski, Deputy City Attorney, Ingrid M. Evans, Deputy City Attorney, City of San Francisco, Lloyd W. Pellman, County Counsel, Lawrence Lee Hafetz and Judy W. Whitehurst, Deputy County Counsel, County of Los Angeles, Samuel L. Jackson, City Attorney, Gustavo L. Martinez, Deputy City Attorney, City of Sacramento, Manuela Albuquerque, City Attorney, Matthew J. Orebic, Deputy City Attorney, City of Berkeley, Thomas F. Casey, III, County Counsel, Brenda B. Carlson, Deputy County Counsel, County of San Mateo, Richard E. Winnie, County Counsel, Rose Kwiatkowski, Assistant County Counsel, County of Alameda, John A. Russo, City Attorney, Randolph W. Hall, Assistant City Attorney, J. Patrick Tang, Deputy City Attorney, City of Oakland, Michael S. Lawson, Thompson, Lawson LLP, Legrand H. Clegg II, City Attorney, Celia Francisco, Deputy City Attorney, City of Compton, Emmerline Foote, Interim City Attorney, City of Inglewood. for Appellant, The People ex rel. Rockard J. Delgadillo as City Attorney et al.

Lawrence S. Greenwald, Catherine A. Bledsoe, Cynthia A. Shay Margaret W. Tindall, Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, LLC, Baltimore, MD, Craig A. Livingston, Kymberly E. Speer, Livingston Law Firm, Walnut Creek, for Respondents Beretta U.S.A. Corp. and Fabbrica D'Armi Pietro Beretta S.p.A.

Roy A. Koletsky, Susan L. Caldwell, Douglas E. Kliever, Koletsky, Mancini, Feldman & Morrow, Los Angeles, for Respondents National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. and Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute, Inc.

James P. Dorr, James B. Vogts, Sarah L. Olson, Aimee B. Anderson Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, IL, Lawrence J. Kouns, Richard R. Spirra Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, San Diego, for Respondent Strum, Ruger & Company.

C.D. Michel, Trutanich-Michel, for Respondents B & B Group, Inc. and S.G. Distributing Co.

Denis J. Moriarty, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Los Angeles, William M. Griffen III Jonann E. Coniglio, Friday, Eldredge & Clark, for Respondent Browning Arms Company.

Friedrich W. Seitz, Murchison & Cumming, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent Carl Walther GmbH.

Robert C. Wright, Laurie E. Barber, Wright & L'Estrange, San Diego, Thomas E. Fennel, Jones Day, New York, NY, for Respondent Colt's Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Alan J. Lazarus, Drinker Biddle & Reath, San Francisco, for Respondent Ellett Brothers, Inc.

Steven A. Silver, Law Offices of Steven A. Silver, Porterville, for Respondent Excel Industries, Inc.

Denis J. Moriarty, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Los Angeles, John F. Renzulli, Renzulli, Pisciotti & Renzulli, New York, NY, for Respondents Glock, Inc., Hi-Point Firearms, H & R 1871, Inc., and Kel-Tec CNC Industries, Inc.

Charles L. Coleman, III, Holland & Knight, San Francisco, for Respondent Heckler & Koch, Inc.

Raymond J. Liddy, Selman Breitman LLP, San Diego, for Respondent International Armament Corporation.

Christopher L. Rudd, Frank Sandelmann, Jon-Jamison Hill, Gorry, Meyer & Rudd, Los Angeles, for Respondent National Gun Sales.

John A. Gladych, Gladych & Associates, Newport Beach, for Respondent North American Arms, Inc.

Denis J. Moriarty, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Los Angeles, Michael J. Zomcik, Tarics & Branisa, Houston, TX, for Respondent Phoenix Arms.

Wayne A. Wolff, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, for Respondent RSR Wholesale Guns, Inc.

Robert M. Anderson, Los Angeles, Robert L. Joyce, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, New York, NY, for Respondent Sigarms, Inc.

George J. Berger, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, San Diego, Jeffrey S. Nelson, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for Respondent Smith & Wesson Corp.

Denis J. Moriarty, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Los Angeles, Timothy A. Bumann, Bridgette E. Eckerson, Budd, Larner, Atlanta, GA, for Respondent Taurus International Manufacturing Inc., and Forjas Taurus S.A.

Harvey M. Grossman and James M. Beck for Product Liability Council, Inc. as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent Manufacturers.

Hugh F. Young, Jr., for Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent Manufacturers.


MARCHIANO, P.J.

A number of California cities and counties filed an action on behalf of the general public against manufacturers, distributors and retailers of handguns and their trade associations, asserting that their conduct of distributing firearms in a manner that enables criminals to acquire the firearms constituted a public nuisance and a pattern of unlawful, unfair and deceptive business acts and practices in...

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