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Product Liability

Oct. 1, 1999

Gun Maker Can Be Sued For Deadly Assault

A manufacturer of semiautomatic assault weapons used to slay eight men and women in a San Francisco high-rise office building six years ago can be sued for negligence, a state appeal panel declared Wednesday.

By Anna Marie Stolley
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        A manufacturer of semiautomatic assault weapons used to slay eight men and women in a San Francisco high-rise office building six years ago can be sued for negligence, a state appeal panel declared Wednesday.
        The precedent-setting ruling, hailed...

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