An Auburn law firm took out a full-page ad in the Lewiston Sun Journal last week advertising a roundtable discussion to explore whether the victims of the Oct. 25 mass shooting can obtain a financial settlement through a civil lawsuit.
“As these tragic events become commonplace and elected officials fail to make significant policy reform in their wake, legal recourse has become one strategy in the fight for justice,” a press release from Gideon Asen LLC states.
The event is free of charge and everyone is welcome to attend or watch by Zoom.
According to the press release, the discussion will involve Josh Koskoff and Jamal Alsaffar, purported experts in lawsuits stemming from mass shootings.
Koskoff and Alsaffar “have been or are currently involved in cases involving mass shootings in Sandy Hook, CT, Uvalde, TX, Highland Park, Illinois, Buffalo, NY, Las Vegas, NV, and others,” the press release states.
Benjamin Gideon, the founder of Gideon Asen, is the husband of two-term Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, a Cumberland County Democrat.
It’s not immediately clear whom Gideon and his fellow attorneys plan to sue; however, Koskoff recently received a glowing profile in the New York Times for his efforts to sue firearms manufacturers following shootings.
In 2022, Koskoff won a $73 million settlement against Remington because the company made the weapon used in the Sandy Hook massacre.
According to the Maine State Police, the rifle wielded by gunman Robert R. Card, Jr. when he murdered 18 people in Lewiston was an AR-10 style Ruger SFAR rifle manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.
The gunmaker is currently facing two lawsuits from family members of six people who were murdered in Boulder, Colorado in 2021.
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Terrible precedent. Lets go after car mfgs when someone drives drunk and kills people. Lets go after pharma and docs when someone dies from overdose.. Instead of focusing on mental health and ensuring these people don’t use any type of weapon to kill others, we go after the easy target. And lawyers are just trying to get paid, don’t kid yourself..
I’m sure these mass tort vultures will fly in aboard their private jets to the “round table.”
These ambulance chasing blood sucking ticks will spread their baseless lawsuit at anyone even remotely connected with that tragedy and cause nothing but further heartache and angst, their type of ambulance chasing law should be outlawed.
Wow! Satanic Sara Gideon’s hubbie the same one that his law firm scammed $2million+ from the covid PPP program that was there to help struggling workers during the covid scam. Now he’s involved in this ambulance chasing scam that has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with lining their pockets! Just like every democrat law firm it seems there is out there! At some point it will come to some government responsibility and the taxpayers who are the money purse for said government will pay the price, which seems to be the Gideon operation plan. Satanic Sara, the evil that keeps on giving!