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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
The parents of a Kansas City man who was killed in a 2016 shooting were awarded $4 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against a former...
Dayton Part of Lawsuit Alleging BCI Gun Background Check System is ‘Broken’
Columbus & Dayton, OH (Dayton) – Dayton and Columbus have filed a first-of-its kind lawsuit claiming the state has failed its duty to ensure the…
Columbus, Dayton Sue AG’s Office Over Gun Background Check System
The cities of Columbus and Dayton, along with the national gun control group Everytown and Ohio resident Meghan Volk are suing...
Columbus, Dayton Allege ‘Dangerous Failure’ in State Gun Background Check System
Two of Ohio’s largest cities have accused the state government of a “continuing and dangerous failure” to report criminal convictions to the federal...
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, OH – The cities of Columbus and Dayton announced today…
Columbus, Dayton Sue to Force Fix of Gun Background Checks
Columbus & Dayton, OH (AP) — Incomplete reporting by counties of people with criminal backgrounds who are prohibited from owning guns is putting public safety…
Columbus, Dayton Sue Ohio Attorney General’s Office Over Spotty Background Check Updates
Columbus and Dayton are suing Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office over what they say is a failure to update the criminal background check system...
Ohio Attorney General Responds to Gun Background Check Lawsuit Filed by Columbus & Dayton
Columbus, Ohio (WSYX/WTTE) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office firing back at the City of Columbus and City of Dayton after the two cities filed in…
Ohio Cities Sue Over ‘Dangerous’ Holes in Gun Background Checks
Columbus & Dayton, OH (Bloomberg Law) – Following a summer of record gun violence, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio on Monday sued the state, alleging its…
Ohio Cities Announce Lawsuit Against State to Curb Gun Violence
(The Center Square) – Two of Ohio’s largest cities announced a lawsuit against the Ohio Attorney General’s office, claiming the state fails to...
Ohio Attorney General responds to gun background check lawsuit filed by Columbus & Dayton
Columbus, OH (WSYX/WTTE) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office firing back at the City of Columbus and City of Dayton after the two cities filed in…
Dayton, Columbus announce lawsuit to reduce gun violence
Columbus, OH (WCMH) — City officials with Dayton and Columbus have announced a lawsuit against the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, over what they say is a failure…
Columbus And Dayton Sue Ohio Attorney General To Fix Gun Background Checks
The cities of Columbus and Dayton are suing Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office over what they call a failure to update the criminal background...
Columbus, Dayton Sue Ohio AG Over ‘Broken’ Background Check System
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two of Ohio’s largest cities claim in a suit against a division of the state attorney general’s office that it failed to…
Columbus, Dayton sue AG Dave Yost to improve Ohio’s background-check database
City attorneys for Columbus and Dayton have asked a Franklin County court to order Attorney General Dave Yost’s office to fix “large, dangerous...
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
A Houston church and two area businesses are challenging a state law that requires private businesses to display signs declaring that they do not...
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
More than two years after the Santa Fe High School shooting, the family of a Pakistani exchange student killed during the massacre...
Everytown Law Responds After Supreme Court Denies All Pending Requests to Hear Challenges to Gun Safety Laws
New York — Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court…