Sixteen U.S. states and a handful of Caribbean governments expressed support for Mexico's appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers
The states, which all have Democratic attorneys general, as well as the District of Columbia, filed an amicus curiae brief in a U.S. court on Tuesday, while the countries of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago joined a separate amicus curiae brief.in a $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold U.S. gun makers responsible for facilitating the trafficking of deadly weapons across the border.
A U.S. judge dismissed the lawsuit in September, citing a U.S. law that protects arms manufactures from being held liable for crimes committed with their products. The brief from the U.S. states argues the judge's decision was "premised on a misreading" of that law. The brief from the Caribbean governments, which was joined by a network of non-governmental organizations, follows aU.S. officials in August noted aThe states filing the brief were California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.Our Standards:
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