Florida Supreme Court
Rejects Reckless Lawsuit
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"...Penelas has run out of options for abusing the legal system to
promote his anti-gun agenda, unless he chooses to waste more taxpayer
funds by appealing..." |
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The unhappy
Miami-Dade mayor
Alex Penelas |
Anti-gun extremists were recently dealt yet another devastating blow to
their reckless lawsuit agenda. On October 24, the Florida State Supreme
Court issued a refusal to hear an appeal of the reckless lawsuit
championed by anti-gun Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas (D). The Penelas
suit was originally
rejected in 1999 by
Circuit Judge Amy Dean, who
stated the county "lacks standing" to sue gun makers on behalf of
shooting victims.
The Supreme Court's decision not to hear the appeal
means Penelas has run out of options for abusing the legal system to
promote his anti-gun agenda, unless he chooses to waste more taxpayer
funds by appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has
already rejected
a similar appeal by New Orleans' anti-gun Mayor Marc Morial (D).
While it is not surprising the anti-gun community has been very quiet
regarding this crushing setback to its gun-ban agenda, the mainstream
media have also been strangely mute. Perhaps the regularity with which
courts have been rejecting these reckless lawsuits has led to the media
considering them no longer newsworthy. Or maybe those in the media who
support attacks on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms are simply tired of
reporting demoralizing defeats to the agenda they support.
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