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Everytown Law Responds After Supreme Court Denies All Pending Requests to Hear Challenges to Gun Safety Laws 06.15.20NEW YORK — Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court denied 10 petitions asking the court to review Second Amendment challenges to city and state gun… Continue
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Survivors Represented by Everytown Awarded $4M in Damages in Wrongful Death Suit Over Son’s Shooting Death in Kansas City
Everytown Law: ‘Holding Bad Actors Accountable for their Dangerous Behavior is a Crucial Part of Preventing Future Shootings’KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Missouri court on…
Parents of 2016 shooting victim awarded $4 million in wrongful death lawsuit
Source: TAMMY LJUNGBLAD [email protected] The parents of a Kansas City man who was killed in a 2016 shooting were awarded $4 million in damages in a…
Columbus and Dayton File First-of-its-Kind Suit Against Ohio Attorney General’s Office Over Failure to Ensure Criminal Convictions Are Entered Into Background Check Databases
AG’S Failure Means Thousands of People Prohibited from Purchasing Firearms Can Still Pass Background Checks COLUMBUS, Ohio – The cities of Columbus and Dayton announced today…
Madison Parents Urge Ohio Supreme Court to Uphold Ruling That Arming School Teachers With Only 24 Hours of Training Is Illegal Under State Law
Hundreds of Ohio Teachers, as well as Teachers’ Unions, Safety and Education Experts, Law Enforcement and Cities of Columbus and Cincinnati Also Filed…
Houston church, coffee shops challenge state’s ‘no-guns-allowed’ signs
Source: Melissa Phillip, Staff / Houston Chronicle A Houston church and two area businesses are challenging a state law that requires private businesses to display…
Houston Church and Business – Represented by Everytown Law and Jones Day – Challenge Texas Law Intended to Punish Business Owners That Want to Keep Guns off Their Property
Current Law – Designed to be Punitive – Requires Houses of Worship and Businesses Wanting to Prohibit Firearms to Post Oversized, Visually Unappealing Signs…
Cities, With Support From Everytown, Sue to Compel Trump Administration to Address Growing Threat From ‘Ghost Guns’
Lawsuit Alleges that ATF’s Dangerous and Erroneous Interpretation Of Critical Gun Safety Law Allows Explosive Growth of Unregulated Firearms that are Increasingly Being used to…
Everytown Law: ATF Should Revoke Firearms License Granted to Successor of Gun Manufacturer Tied to Trafficking
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Has Also Bid in Jimenez Arms LLC’s Bankruptcy Auction To Keep The Inventory of Cheap, Dangerous Firearms From Ending…
$300,000 Seed Grant Announced for ‘Sabika for Peace Foundation,’ Honoring 16-Year-Old Pakistani Exchange Student Killed in the Mass Shooting at Santa Fe High School
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund and the American Councils for International Education (“ACIE”), along with its partner organizations, the American Institute…
Parents of slain Santa Fe exchange student Sabika Sheikh start Pakistan foundation in her name
Source: Houston Chronicle HOUSTON, TX – More than two years after the Santa Fe High School shooting, the family of a Pakistani exchange student killed…
Father of School Shooting Victim Takes On Smith & Wesson
Source: New York Times The father of a mass shooting victim and two gun safety groups petitioned the federal government on Sunday to stop the…
Everytown Support Fund, Moms Demand Action Respond After Supreme Court Ruling In Suit Over Now-repealed New York City Gun Rule
NEW YORK — Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund (“Everytown”) and Moms Demand Action, the grassroots volunteer network of Everytown for Gun Safety, today…
Court orders Madison Schools to stop arming staff without increased training
Teacher near blackboard with a gun. Self-defense in the classroom. The problem of safety in school conception. Vector illustration. MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — A judge has…
New Everytown Law Analysis: The Second Amendment Does Not Require Officials to Give Gun Stores Special Treatment During Coronavirus Closures
NEW YORK — Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, today released a legal memorandum debunking gun lobby…
17-Year-Old Who Carried Out Mass Shooting at Santa Fe High School Illegally Bought Ammunition on Website That Never Verified His Age, Lawsuit Alleges
SANTA FE, Texas — The 17-year-old shooter who killed 10 people and wounded 13 others at Santa Fe High School in 2018 bought more than…
Ohio Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to “Using Guns While Drunk” Law
The Ohio Supreme Court will test the old adage that guns and alcohol don’t mix. The justices are scheduled to hear oral arguments this week,…
Dealer Who Sold Weapon Used in Killing to Stop Selling Guns
A firearms dealer who sold a weapon used in deadly Kansas City shooting has agreed to stop selling guns as part of a settlement with…
Gun dealer must shut down in lawsuit settlement with parents of Kansas City homicide victim
A settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Kansas City man killed in a 2016 shooting will require the gun dealer…
Everytown Law Announces Settlement with Gun Dealer That Sold Gun Used in Kansas City Murder
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, announced today that a Jackson County judge has…
Judge Rules Kansas City Couple’s Suit Against Gun Manufacturer Can Move Forward
Suit Alleges the Company’s Actions Contributed to Illegal Distribution of Firearms KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety…
Litigation Daily on Everytown Law’s ‘Formidable In-House Team’
On Monday, Litigation Daily published a profile of Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, noting that…
Daily Dicta: With a Growing Team of Big Law Alums, Everytown Law Takes Aim at the Firearms Industry
Over the past three years, the gun safety advocacy group Everytown Law has been building a formidable in-house team, growing from one lawyer to…
Are The Courts Open To More Lawsuits Against Gunmakers?
Kansas City Will Soon Find Out. While some cities such as Los Angeles and New York have seen a long downward trend in gun violence,…
Everytown Law Applauds Court Ruling Dismissing Lawsuit Challenging Albuquerque’s Enforcement Of State Law Prohibitions On Firearms In Community And Health Centers
NEW YORK – Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, today applauded a Bernalillo County District Court Judge’s decision…
Everytown Law Applauds Court Ruling Dismissing Lawsuit Challenging Albuquerque’s Enforcement Of State Law Prohibitions On Firearms In Community And Health Centers
NEW YORK – Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, today applauded a Bernalillo County District Court Judge’s decision…
Everytown Law and Kansas City’s Lawsuit Over Weapons Trafficking
Mayor Lucas announces lawsuit seeking accountability for gun trafficking in Kansas City SOURCE: KCTV5 KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — Kansas City is taking on gunmakers…
Everytown Law Represents Kansas City, Missouri In Suit Against Gun Manufacturer, Dealers And Alleged Traffickers For Contributing To Local Gun Violence
Kansas City is the First in the U.S. to File a Lawsuit Against the Gun Industry in More than 10 Years KANSAS CITY, Mo. –…
Dangerous consequences possible for Second Amendment sanctuaries
The law enforcement officials in Nevada and elsewhere who are embracing the concept of Second Amendment sanctuaries claim to be protecting citizens’ rights and upholding…
US Supreme Court weighs into gun control debate
Activists on both sides of the gun control debate are nervously awaiting the first US Supreme Court decision on a firearms case in a decade.
‘Ghost guns’ need to be brought out of the shadows
California has some of the nation’s most stringent gun restrictions, including a law requiring people who build their own firearms from parts to apply for…
Everytown for Gun Safety Urges ATF to Correct Regulatory Failure Allowing Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’ Into Communities Across the Country
Key Points Ghost Guns Are Unserialized, Untraceable Guns Often Made from Building Blocks That Can Be Purchased with No Background Check ATF’s Current Failure…
Everytown Is Going After the ATF for Not Regulating Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’
The gun control advocacy group wants to know why ATF won’t crack down on the DIY gun kits that they used to regulate.
Bronx man, battling own legal woes, brings gun rights case to U.S. Supreme Court
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two weeks before Efrain Alvarez and his attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a New York…
Supreme Court allows families of Sandy Hook shooting victims to sue gunmaker Remington
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a request from the gun industry intended to block a lawsuit from families of the Sandy Hook Elementary…
‘Ghost Guns’ Are Untraceable, Easy to Make, More Prevalent
For a few hundred dollars, tools and some elbow grease, you can make your own rifle or handgun. It’s all perfectly legal — and it…
Education, Other Advocacy Groups Chime In on N.Y.C. Gun Case in Supreme Court
Advocacy groups that emerged from mass school shootings in recent years are seizing an opportunity to urge the U.S. Supreme Court not to broaden the…
The Supreme Court Is Poised To Send A Major Signal On Gun Control
The U.S. Supreme Court will examine gun rights for the first time in nearly a decade on Monday when it hears arguments in a case…
Judge Strikes Down Gun Laws Enacted in Wake of Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday struck down three gun control ordinances enacted by the City of Pittsburgh after the mass shooting at the Tree of…
Court Rejects Edmonds Safe Gun Storage Law, Leaves Intact Fines for Unauthorized Possession
In the latest round of legal actions over Edmonds’ safe gun storage law, Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Anita Farris ruled on Friday that while…
Fight over training in Madison schools armed staff case going to the next level
BUTLER COUNTY — The school safety gun debate is going to the next level in Butler County now that the 12th District Court of Appeals…
Everytown Law Wins Major Federal Court Ruling Requiring The Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to Provide Data on Gun Violence
NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety, the country’s largest gun violence prevention organization, today won a major federal court ruling that overturned the…
Judge says you can’t punish local officials for deciding about guns in their communities. It’s a start.
Florida towns scored when a Tallahassee judge ruled elected officials can’t be fined and fired for enacting gun rules that suit their residents. Sue Carlton…
Everytown Law Applauds Florida Court Ruling Striking Down Punitive Aspects of NRA-backed Preemption Law
LEON COUNTY, Fla. – Everytown for Gun Safety, the country’s largest gun violence prevention organization, applauded a Friday ruling by the Florida Circuit Court,…
Parents of slain exchange student Sabika Sheikh make first visit to Santa Fe
SANTA FE — The first thing Sabika Sheikh’s parents saw when they entered the main room at the Santa Fe Strong Resiliency Center were several…
Florida’s $5,000 fine for enacting local gun-control laws struck down by judge
A Tallahassee judge has struck down the $5,000 fine that Florida mayors and city council members face if they try to enact municipal gun-control rules,…
Gun-safety debate reaches Montana’s Supreme Court
The politically charged case could give cities the power to curb high rates of gun violence. Read the Article Click…
West Virginia domestic violence coalition sues over gun law
Noting that domestic violence murders often involve guns, and that domestic abusers lurk around victims’ shelters, the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence has filed…
Gun manufacturer let illegal arms dealer sell murder weapon in KC, lawsuit claims
The parents of a 29-year-old Kansas City man who was killed in a 2016 shooting have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a firearms manufacturer…