Outgunned No More - The New Era of Firearms Industry Accountability

This book describes the changed legal landscape for governments and private citizens to sue gun industry defendants for contributing to and sustaining the gun violence epidemic in the US and Mexico. It is a valuable resource for leaders in state governments, public health advocates, and the legal profession.

List of contents

1. Limited Effective Firearms Regulation and the Second Amendment Challenge to Gun Control; 2. Suing the Firearms Industry: The Failure of Traditional Tort Litigation Through the Twenty-First Century; 3. The 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: A New Mass Tort Paradigm and Lessons from Tobacco for Firearms Accountability; 4. The Firearms Industry Strikes Back: Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Acts (PLCAA); 5. The Third Wave of Firearms Litigation: The Futility of Suing Gun Defendants Under PLCAA; 6. Inroads into LCAA: The Sandy Hook Elementary School Litigation and the Predicate Statute Exception; 7. Zellnor Myrie and the First New York and New Jersey Firearms Public Nuisance Statutes; 8. California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, and Washington: Further Firearms Public Nuisance and Industry Accountability Initiatives; 9. The Extraterritoriality of Firearms Accountability: Mexico Sues the Firearms Industry; 10. Firearms Industry Accountability: The Emerging Mass Tort Litigation.

About the author

Linda S. Mullenix holds the Morris and Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. Mullenix has been a Supreme Court Fellow, a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, and held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law (Trento, Italy). She is an elected Life Member of the American Law Institute, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the American Bar Foundation. She is the author of Public Nuisance: The New Mass Tort Frontier (Cambridge University Press 2024).

Product details

• Authors: Linda S. Mullenix, Linda S. (University of Texas Mullenix
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009637275
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0963727-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, LAW / Constitutional, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Crime & criminology, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Violent crimes, Public Health & Safety Law, Public health and safety law, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts