The desperate sound of losing
Mayor Daley wants to take gun manufacturers to world court:
Six years after the state Supreme Court dismissed his $433 million lawsuit against the gun industry, Mayor Daley today called for a change of venue — to the World Court normally reserved for disputes between nations and crimes against humanity.
Wrapping up the sixth annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum, Daley convinced more than a dozen of his counterparts from around the world to approve a resolution urging “redress against the gun industry through the courts of the world” in The Hague.
“This is coming from international mayors. They’re saying, ‘We’re tired of your guns, America. … We don’t want those anymore because guns kill and injure people,’ ” Daley told a news conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Kopel looks at what that court actually does.
In other suing gun industry news, a case in NY:
The handgun industry appeared in a Buffalo courtroom Monday, arguing it cannot be held responsible for the gun violence that severely wounded Buffalo teenager Daniel “Bud” Williams in 2003.
In a case that could have broad implications regarding the industry’s liability over illegal handguns, attorneys representing those who manufactured, distributed and initially sold the gun used to shoot Williams asked Supreme Court Justice Frederick J. Marshall to dismiss the lawsuit filed by William and his father, Eddie.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:16 am
This is from a guy (Daley) that had to take the bar exam 3 times inorder to pass. I wonder when daddy’s clout finally kicked in to get him thru that.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:16 am
The World Neutered Court. Guess he thinks the UN will come to enforce his ideas since no one else cares.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:49 am
As the peasant said in that Monty Python movie, “I didn’t vote for him.”
April 28th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Maybe part of the discovery in World Court should be his Swiss and offshore bank accounts.
I wonder if I can intervene as a third party. Under the Whistleblower law I get 10%? of whatever I help recover. And I am a lawyer and my expenses will be paper, ink cartridges, and postage.