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\u00a0(Reuters) – Sixteen U.S. states and a handful of Caribbean governments on Tuesday expressed support for Mexico’s appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers.<\/p>

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The states, which all have Democratic attorneys general, as well as the District of Columbia, filed an amicus curiae brief in a U.S. court on Tuesday, while the countries of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago joined a separate amicus curiae brief.<\/p>\n

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Mexico said last week it had\u00a0filed an appeal<\/a> in a $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold U.S. gun makers responsible for facilitating the trafficking of deadly weapons across the border.<\/p>

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A U.S. judge dismissed the lawsuit in September, citing a U.S. law that protects arms manufactures from being held liable for crimes committed with their products.<\/p>

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The brief from the U.S. states argues the judge’s decision was “premised on a misreading” of that law.<\/p>\n

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The brief from the Caribbean governments, which was joined by a network of non-governmental organizations, follows a\u00a0summit<\/a>\u00a0among regional leaders last month held in the Bahamas, where arms trafficking was a key topic.<\/p>

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U.S. officials in August noted a\u00a0spike in weapons smuggling<\/a>\u00a0to Haiti and the Caribbean in previous months.<\/p>\n

The states filing the brief were California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.<\/p>

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Reporting by Brendan O’Boyle, Kylie Madry and Jasper Ward; Editing by Bradley Perrett<\/span><\/div>\n
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