{"id":5093,"date":"2025-04-05T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/smith-wesson-to-face-civil-suit-over-mp-rifle-used-in-parade-mass-shooting-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:23:15","slug":"smith-wesson-to-face-civil-suit-over-mp-rifle-used-in-parade-mass-shooting-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/smith-wesson-to-face-civil-suit-over-mp-rifle-used-in-parade-mass-shooting-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#038; Wesson to Face Civil Suit Over M&#038;P Rifle Used in Parade Mass Shooting, Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The victims of a 2022 mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade can proceed with negligence claims against Smith &amp; Wesson and other gun retailers and distributors, an Illinois judge ruled this week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>On April 1, Lake County Circuit Judge Jorge L. Ortiz denied the defendants&#8217; motions to dismiss claims brought by individuals affected by the Highland Park, Illinois shooting that left seven dead and 48 others injured. The plaintiffs\u2014backed by attorneys with Romanucci &amp; Blandin, Everytown Law, and Wallace Miller\u2014accused Smith &amp; Wesson, an online gun distributor, and an Illinois gun retailer, of unfair business practices and negligence for the allegedly deceptive marketing of the weapon ultimately used in the attack. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The victims of a 2022 mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade can proceed with negligence claims against Smith &amp; Wesson and other gun retailers and distributors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2137,422,423,801,4669,5379,351,2735,540,339,5378],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-civil","tag-face","tag-judge","tag-mass","tag-parade","tag-rifle","tag-rules","tag-shooting","tag-smith","tag-suit","tag-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}