Petition DENIED. (orders list)

Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Legal Community Against Violence, et al. GRANTED. (orders list)

Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Children's Defense Fund GRANTED. (orders list)

Reply of petitioners Hector Adames, Jr., et al. filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 11, 2009.

Brief of respondent Beretta U.S.A. Corporation in opposition filed.

Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including November 16, 2009.

Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Legal Community Against Violence, et al.

Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Children's Defense Fund.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including October 28, 2009.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 28, 2009)

Hector Adames, Jr., et al., Petitioner, represented by Robert S. Peck

Beretta U.S.A. Corporation, Respondent, represented by Craig Livingston

Children's Defense Fund, Amicus Curiae, represented by Christopher J. Wright

Legal Community Against Violence, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Charles M. Dyke