April 21, 2026
Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. is asking a Connecticut state court to find that Colorado, not Connecticut, law applies to a pair of suits from families of the victims of a 2021 Boulder mass shooting, saying Connecticut has little to no connection with the company's alleged wrongdoing.
July 21, 2025
Sturm Ruger & Co. on Monday asked a Connecticut state judge to strike lawsuits by the families of the victims of a Colorado mass shooting, saying litigation from the Sandy Hook massacre does not open the Constitution State's unfair trade practices statute to all advertising-based claims against gunmakers.
April 01, 2025
Family members who lost loved ones in a mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store can't prove that Sturm Ruger & Co.'s marketing of an AR-style weapon is what inspired the gunman to violence, the firearms manufacturer argued, saying without this link the claims must be dismissed.
March 04, 2025
Connecticut-based gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. must face two lawsuits in its home state over a 2021 mass shooting in a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket, a Connecticut judge has ruled, citing the state's interest in policing harms its businesses may cause in other jurisdictions.
August 05, 2024
Connecticut-based gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. wants two lawsuits surrounding a March 2021 mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, dismissed from Connecticut state court, arguing that Connecticut is an inconvenient place to litigate a massacre that occurred two time zones away.
April 25, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge sent two lawsuits against gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. back to state court Thursday, finding that the complaints brought by the estates of two Colorado mass shooting victims did not meet a key standard for handling the claims in federal court.
April 16, 2024
A federal judge in Connecticut hinted Tuesday that he might send cases by Colorado mass shooting victims against gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. back to state court, noting that only rarely may district court judges hear core state law claims when federal law provides an ingredient in the analysis.
January 01, 2024
Several high-dollar commercial disputes are scheduled for trial in the beginning of 2024 in Connecticut state courts, including a $50 million telecom dispute that's been 14 years in the making and an enforcement action against a Florida pharmacy accused of colluding with state employees and retirees to perpetrate a drug kickback scheme. Here are five Connecticut cases to watch as the new year unfolds.
October 16, 2023
Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. removed a pair of suits by the estates of victims of a Colorado mass shooting from Connecticut state court to federal court, arguing the latest amended complaints implicate questions of federal law.
August 24, 2023
Gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. has objected to an attempt to amend a lawsuit filed in Connecticut state court by a group of families of victims of a Colorado mass shooting, claiming the proposed amended suit would add new theories of liability that are time-barred.