# City of Chicago v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp.

> Illinois Supreme Court · November 18, 2004 · 213 Ill. 2d 351

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9723752

## Case

- **Full name:** The CITY OF CHICAGO Et Al., Appellees, v. BERETTA U.S.A. CORPORATION Et Al., Appellants
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 18, 2004
- **Citations:** 213 Ill. 2d 351; 290 Ill. Dec. 525; 821 N.E.2d 1099; 2004 Ill. LEXIS 1665
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Freeman
- **Judges:** Garman, Freeman, McMorrow, Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Rarick
- **Cited by:** 242 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the Moorman doctrine applies, even absent a contractual relationship, where “the damages sought by the plaintiffs are ‘solely economic damages’ in the sense that they represent costs incurred in the absence of harm to a plaintiff’s person or property”
- holding that the doctrine applies, even absent a contractual relationship, where “the damages sought by the plaintiffs are ‘solely economic damages’ in the sense that they represent costs incurred in the absence of harm to a plaintiffs person or property”
- concluding that there is no public right to be “free from unreasonable jeopardy to health, welfare, and safety, and from unreasonable threats of danger to person and property, caused by the presence of illegal weapons in the city of Chicago”
- rejecting the city’s claim for public nuisance against gun manufacturers and expressing “reluctan[ce] to recognize a public right so broad and undefined that the presence of any potentially dangerous instrumentality in the community could be deemed to threaten it”

## Opinion text

JUSTICE FREEMAN, specially concurring:
For the reasons given in my special concurrence in Young v. Bryco Arms, 213 Ill. 2d 433, 456 (2004), I specially concur.
CHIEF JUSTICE McMORROW and JUSTICES FITZGERALD, KILBRIDE and RARICK join in this special concurrence.

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