Mexico never alleged that the gun manufacturers directly sold guns to Mexican cartels, actively conspired with gun traffickers, or even intended for Mexican cartels to use their products.

Mexico was seeking an unspecified amount of monetary damages, estimated in the range of $10 billion, and a court order requiring gun companies to change their practices.

The court held that Mexico’s 2021 lawsuit against seven U.S. gun manufacturers is barred under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).

The Supreme Court was asked to determine the future of Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. firearm manufacturers, in which the country’s government asked the companies to pay $10 billion in damages ...

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Mexico wanted to sue for $10 billion in damages, but the justices said it is not plausible that gun manufacturers aided and abetted gun traffickers, and therefore, they are not liable.

Mexico sued seven gun manufacturers in 2021, seeking to pull the linchpin from the crime gun pipeline. U.S. gunmakers are an essential component of cartel violence, Mexico argued, because it maintains ...

In 2021, Mexico sued several gun manufacturers and one gun distributor under a variety of tort claims, trying to hold them liable for the gun-violence epidemic harming the country.

The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Mexico’s challenge to U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that they cannot be blamed for crime and cartel violence south of the border.

Gun manufacturers appealed to the high court after a lower federal court allowed Mexico's lawsuit to move forward under an exception in the law for when companies themselves are accused of ...

The Supreme Court is handing a big win to American firearms manufacturers by blocking a $10 billion lawsuit brought by the government of Mexico seeking to blame the industry for violence south of the ...

Firearms makers, led by Smith & Wesson Brands, said the chain of events between the manufacture of a gun and the harm it causes after being sold, transported, and used to commit crime in ...