My picks included Sturm, Ruger & Company, Smith & Wesson Holding Corp,  Johnson & Johnson, Molson Coors Brewing Company,  Anheuser-Busch,  Reynolds American, and  Altria Group. [read post]

Sturm, Ruger & Co., 761 N.Y.S.2d 192 (N.Y.A.D. 2003), the court held, among a lot of other things, that using public nuisance against makers of legal products would invite "a host of societal problems. . . into the courthouse":[A] common-law public nuisance cause of action. . .will, in our judgment, likely open the courthouse doors to a flood of limitless, similar theories of public nuisance, not only against these defendants, but also against a wide and varied… [read post]