WEBBER v. ARMSLIST LLC

No. 21-3198, No. 21-3207.

70 F.4th 945 (2023)

Richard WEBBER, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Sara J. Schmidt, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ARMSLIST LLC and Jonathan Gibbon, Defendants-Appellees. Erin Bauer and Estate of Paul Bauer, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Armslist LLC and Jonathan Gibbon, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 12, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Kimball , Attorney, Blank Rome LLP, New York, NY, Jon Lowy , Attorney, Global Action on Gun Violence, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Timothy L. Moore , Attorney, Law Offices of Timothy L. Moore, San Francisco, CA, Brian A. Sutherland , Attorney, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Leonard A. Nelson , Attorney, Matthew C. Brown , American Medical Association, Office of the General Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae American Medical Association, Wisconsin Medical Society, Inc. in No. 21-3198.

Before Flaum, Brennan, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


In these cases, we consider whether a website that hosts advertisements for the sale and purchase of firearms can be held liable under Wisconsin law for the deaths of two shooting victims. The circumstances giving rise to the complaints at issue are grave and the allegations are serious.

Erin Bauer and Richard Webber...

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