NY Gun Liability Law Avoids High Court Hearing: New York Brief

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Justices Turn Away Challenge to NY Gun Law

The Supreme Court declined to take up the firearm industry’s challenge to a New York state law seeking to impose civil liability when guns are used to commit crimes, Jordan Fischer reports, leaving the first-in-the-nation law in place for now.

The justices denied a petition targeting the 2021 law, which allows state and local governments and individuals to sue firearms manufacturers and dealers ...