United States Ninth Circuit

In a personal injury action against firearm manufacturers based on a criminal shooting, the partial grant of Defendants' motions to dismiss is affirmed where the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act protected the federally licensed manufacturers from liability, but did not protect the unlicensed manufacturer Defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/05/2008
• Decided 05/11/2009
• Published 05/11/2009

Judges

• Before:  STEPHEN REINHARDT, SUSAN P. GRABER, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Nordberg, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA;  and Sayre Weaver, The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, La Habra, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Beth S. Brinkman, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles H. Dick, Jr., and Shannon D. Sweeney, Baker & McKenzie LLP, for defendant-appellant/appellee China North., Christopher Renzulli, Renzulli Law Firm, LLP, White Plains, NY, for defendants-appellees Glock & RSR., H. Thomas Byron, III, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-intervenor-appellee.