Mexico’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against U.S. Gunmakers Can Proceed, Appeals Court Rules
ForbesJAN 12 2024
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear Smith & Wesson v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, a bid to end a billion-dollar lawsuit from the Mexican government against US firearm manufacturers.
This comes as companies and more than two dozen Republican state attorney generals asked the Supreme Court earlier this year to intervene in the case to prevent years of costly litigation for the gun industry.
3A federal district judge in Boston had dismissed the lawsuit two years ago on the grounds that a 2005 federal law barred such legal action, but an unanimous three-judge panel of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals revived the suit in January.
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