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DIANNE FEINSTEIN Calif. Sen., Jewish, ex- S.F. mayor. Finance questions, sure, but gun lobby's nightmare...
Lynn Everson's "bad-trick list" has an inventory of 143 johns. "Red Toyota pickup--white male. gun, bat. Says he's cop, is not...Yellow Chrysler 4-door--white male, hand saw...Green Pickup with tinted windows--young white male, strangled woman till she passed out...Blue Honda, 2-door--white male, rapist, Eastern bloc accent..." The Spokane health worker, affectionately nicknamed "Mother Rubber," hands out condoms, cookies and clean needles from a Winnebago parked on East Sprague Street. Hookers too need someone to watch over them--especially when so many were winding up murdered...
...player in his state's tobacco litigation. "We're the last fighters available for the little guy." They say they've been on the right side of the big issues for decades, from getting air bags in cars to limiting tobacco companies' advertising to minors to forcing gun companies to install trigger locks...
...something changed in the '70s: the awards began to get a lot larger. In 1978 Jamail brought a case against Remington for defects in a gun that injured a man in a hunting accident. The $6.8 million settlement landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Furth won his clients $70 million in 1973 on an antitrust price-fixing case against gypsum-wallboard manufacturers (and got a $4.3 million...
...Guns are already being touted as "the next tobacco." The breakthrough lawsuit came last year, when a jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., held 15 gun manufacturers liable for negligently distributing handguns that were later used in crimes. At least 30 cities and counties have filed lawsuits against gun manufacturers, and the industry is running scared. Smith & Wesson, the oldest and largest handgun manufacturer in the U.S., agreed last month to adopt several kinds of safety measures--among them installing "smart-gun technology" on all its guns within three years in exchange for being dropped from numerous lawsuits. Colt has stopped making...