Pain Lingers 10 Years After Tucson Mass Shooting
Courthouse News reporter Brad Poole reflects on the lingering effects of a shooting that gripped the nation and a southwestern city — and sparked a nationwide gun-control debate.
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Texas Church Massacre
A federal judge denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss claims against it brought by the survivors of the mass shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas in 2017. In undertaking to establish a national background check system, the government assumed the duty to operate that system with care. Therefore, the survivors may sue over lapses that permitted the shooter to obtain the weapons he used to kill 26 people and injure 22 more.
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A Texas man pleaded guilty to unlicensed firearms dealing for selling the AR-15 used to kill seven people in a mass shooting in Odessa and Midland in 2019.
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In a Year of Pain, One Silver Lining: Fewer Mass Shootings
If there’s one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it’s this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.
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Quebec Mosque Shooter’s 40-Year Sentence Cut Almost in Half on Appeal
A man who shot dead six worshippers at a Quebec mosque in 2017 had his sentence reduced to 25 years in prison Thursday when a Canadian court ruled it was unconstitutional for him to serve consecutive life sentences.
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Ohio School Can’t Release Records of Mass Shooter, Court Rules
The school records of the deceased Dayton mass shooter who killed nine people last year cannot be released to the media, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Family members of the victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting sufficiently alleged that the government was negligent in allowing shooter Dylann Roof to purchase the weapon he used during the shooting, a federal court in South Carolina ruled, denying the government’s motion to dismiss.
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A Texas man has pleaded guilty to unlicensed firearms dealing for selling an AR-15 to the shooter who gunned down 32 people in Midland and Odessa last year, killing seven.
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A Nevada judge granted final approval to a $800 million settlement by casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting. This payment will settle dozens of lawsuits related to the shooting that killed 58 people and injured more than 850 at an open-air concert near the Mandalay Bay resort.
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Judge Won’t Restrain Psychiatrist’s Testimony of Gazette Shooter
A psychiatrist who has been unable to interview Maryland newsroom gunman Jarrod Ramos can still testify as to what he observed of the killer’s mental state, a Maryland judge ruled Friday.
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Finnish Police Chief Responsible for 2008 School Mass Shooting That Killed 11
Finland violated the rights of the victims of a 2008 school shooting by giving the perpetrator a gun permit, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday.
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Lawyers Spar Over Psychiatrist’s Analysis of Capital Gazette Shooter
Attorneys for the man who killed five people in a siege of the Capital Gazette’s Maryland newsroom fought Thursday to limit evidence from a psychiatrist who is ready to testify about the gunman’s mental state without having ever interviewed him.
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New Zealand Mosque Shooter Sentenced to Life Without Parole
he white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first time the maximum available sentence has been imposed in the country.
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Families Confront New Zealand Mosque Shooter at Sentencing
Families and survivors had their first chance to confront the white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers in a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques as his four-day sentencing hearing began Monday.
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Sandy Hook Families: Gun Maker Trying to Wipe Out Lawsuit
A lawyer for some of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims’ families accused Remington Arms on Tuesday of using its new bankruptcy case to try to wipe out their lawsuit over how the company marketed the rifle used in the massacre.
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A Sandy Hook victim’s parent may pursue his intentional infliction of emotional distress claim against Alex Jones and InfoWars relating to statements disputing the authenticity of the 2012 school shooting, an appeals court in Texas ruled, finding the lower court properly refused to dismiss the case.
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Lawyers to Argue About Psychologist in Newspaper Attack Case
Lawyers are scheduled to argue about whether a psychologist’s observations about a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper should be heard by jurors who will decide whether he’s criminally responsible because of his mental health.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Over two years after a Northern California man shot multiple school children and killed his wife
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Gunmaker Remington Arms filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting in question the future of a massive lawsuit from families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre, which is set for trial next year.
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‘Not One Iota of Evidence’: NYT Assails Palin Suit
Some three years after Sarah Palin sued The New York Times over an editorial about toxic political rhetoric, the paper’s attorney told a federal judge that the former Alaska governor’s hunt for evidence has turned up empty.
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