{"id":3118,"date":"2016-04-23T12:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T04:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/23\/extended-sandy-hook-lawsuit-might-just-be-what-the-plaintiffs-need\/"},"modified":"2016-04-23T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T04:21:52","slug":"extended-sandy-hook-lawsuit-might-just-be-what-the-plaintiffs-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/23\/extended-sandy-hook-lawsuit-might-just-be-what-the-plaintiffs-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Sandy Hook lawsuit might just be what the plaintiffs need"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When a Connecticut judge last week allowed family members of Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims to continue their lawsuit against a gun manufacturer,\u00a0<\/span>experts saw the decision as a means to put off deciding the legal merits of the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those experts are undoubtedly right, but several of them also believe extending the case opens the door \u2014 just a crack \u2014 to the possibility that plaintiffs may score a legal victory.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Newtown teacher is arrested for bringing a gun to school<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There was reason to think that the lawsuit \u2014 brought by several families against Bushmaster Firearms, which manufactured the weapon used in the 2012 massacre \u2014 wouldn’t even get off the ground.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Guns<\/a>, Bushmaster<\/a>, Judge<\/a>, Lawsuit<\/a>, and Connecticut<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a Connecticut judge last week allowed family members of Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims to continue their lawsuit against a gun manufacturer,\u00a0experts saw the decision as a means to put off deciding the legal merits of the case. Those … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2399,2401,2398,2400,1900],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-bushmaster","tag-connecticut","tag-guns","tag-judge","tag-lawsuit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}