A Miami-Dade legal team marched into court to convince Circuit Judge Amy Dean that the county should be allowed to sue gunmakers to recover the money it has spent on police, ambulances and other services associated with gun violence. Dean immediately told the lead lawyer for the county that she had "problems" with the suit. Chief among them: There is little, if any, precedent allowing a government to file such an action on behalf of citizens.
November 18, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A state judge in Cincinnati dismissed that city’s lawsuit against the firearms industry in October. Weeks later, a judge in Atlanta threw out part of that city’s legal action against gun makers.
Faced with those two setbacks, a Miami-Dade legal team marched into court Tuesday to convince Circuit Judge Amy Dean that the county should be allowed to seek to recover from gun makers the money it has spent on police, ambulances and other services associated with gun violence.
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