Questioning the legality of tactics used by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to sue gun dealers, an Atlanta federal judge has allowed a Georgia gun shop's defamation suit against Bloomberg and other New York officials to go forward. Judge J. Owen Forrester rejected officials' efforts to dismiss the suit by Adventure Outdoors, one of 27 shops facing Bloomberg's suit in New York. Forrester also rejected efforts by New York's lawyers to transfer the case to New York or dismiss it for lack of jurisdiction.
October 05, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Questioning the legality of tactics used by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to sue gun dealers, a federal judge in Atlanta has allowed a defamation suit by a Smyrna, Ga., gun shop against Bloomberg and other New York City officials to go forward.
Senior U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester rejected arguments by New York officials to dismiss the suit brought by Adventure Outdoors Inc. — one of 27 shops, eight of them in Georgia, facing Bloomberg’s suit in New York.
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