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Judge denies Bushmaster request for delay in wrongful death case

A Superior Court Judge in Connecticut has denied a request by Bushmaster Firearms for a temporary stay of discovery in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by some of the families of those killed at Sandy Hook School.  The judge, who allowed the suit to move forward, said in a statement Thursday that given an April 2018 trial date, a delay in exchanging evidence would translate into a delay of the trial.  The Judge continued by pointing out that the lawsuit was filed in 2015.

 

The judge ruled in April that a federal law protecting gun makers from lawsuits does not prevent lawyers for the families of Sandy Hook victims from arguing that the AR-15 is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians.

 

A lawyer for the families had argued there is an exception in federal law that allows litigation against companies that know, or should know, that their weapons are likely to be used in a way that risks injury to others.

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