CITY, COUNTY TO SUE GUN MANUFACTURERS.Byline: Robert Monroe Daily News Staff Writer Following other municipalities nationwide, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. city and county officials said they will announce their plan today to sue the handgun industry. Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California and county Supervisor Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. will introduce plans for a joint lawsuit intended to hold gun makers accountable for the costs of crime associated with their products. Chicago and other cities have already filed such suits this year, a Molina spokesman said, adding that Los Angeles would be the first county to do so. ``The argument is that because the gun industry knowingly saturates the market with guns, it has created a situation where guns are so accessible that crime and violence have escalated,'' Miguel Santana Miguel Santana (born February 9, 1965) is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. Santana was born in Canovanas. Boxing career Miguel Santana had an award winning amateur boxing career, training alongside a young Jose Antonio Rivera, who is a two division world champion himself. said. ``We need to hold the gun industry accountable.'' Molina will ask her fellow supervisors when they meet at 9:30 a.m. today to authorize the lawsuit and to continue tracking the incidence and costs to the county of firearm-related crime. The costs would be the basis for determining damages requested in the lawsuit. At the same time, Hahn and his counterpart in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , City Attorney Louise Renne, will announce their plans to file suits in state court. The two established a statewide anti-handgun task force in January. Lawsuits by the cities of Chicago and New Orleans against the gun industry have not been resolved yet. If supervisors approve Molina's proposal, the lawsuit could be filed as early as Wednesday, Santana said. |
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