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Terri Langford

Uvalde family hires Sandy Hook lawyer

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Lawyers for the family of a 10-year-old victim of a Uvalde gunman have requested marketing material from the Georgia-based manufacturer behind the AR-15-style assault rifle used to kill 21 people at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School.

The legal team, which is representing relatives of Amerie Jo Garza, hasn't filed a lawsuit. But one of its members won a $73 million settlement for nine families of victims in the Sandy Hook shooting after pioneering a legal theory that the marketing of the gun used in that shooting violated fair-trade laws in Connecticut.

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