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To: eddie r gammon who wrote (35079)	11/8/2000 11:12:30 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>>Well I guess there will be a huge lawsuit against the manufacture of the gun.<< Not in Virginia, there won't. Trust me on this one, they don't call it the Old Dominion for nothing. In Virginia, the product only has to be fit for its intended purpose. I am friends with a guy who won a $13 million verdict against a manufacturer of window screens on behalf of a brain-damaged child who leaned against the screen to wave bye-bye to Mommy and fell out on his head. The fittings which held the screen in were defective, so the screens wouldn't stay in, and the lawyers were able to prove that the manufacturer knew they were defective but didn't change the process. It was reversed by the Virginia Supreme Court, on the basis that the purpose of the screen was to act as a window screen, and the fittings, although defective, were not intended to keep children from falling. Unanimous decision. My friend went from being the luckiest guy in the world to the unluckiest guy in the world. Oh, well, can't win 'em all.