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While Pam Grunow's attorneys asked Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga to impose the entire $24 million damage award against Valor, the gun distributor's attorneys persuaded the judge the jury's verdict was legally inconsistent. Labarga threw out the award, calling the verdict "fatally inconsistent" in that jurors decided the gun was not defective but Valor should have provided better safety measures on it.
She sued everyone except the people who could reasonably have been blamed: the gun owner and the kid who murdered her husband.The court documents take up dozens of files in the courthouse, and Valor often had half a dozen attorneys working on its behalf, including New York City attorney John Renzulli, who specializes in defending the gun industry throughout the country.
Renzulli, who was the only Valor Corp. attorney who could be reached late Monday, said he doesn't know what the company's defense cost.
"We spent thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars defending this case," said Renzulli, who is not directly handling the request for fees and costs. "I don't know what the bottom line is."
Personally, I hope she winds up having to work 3 jobs for the next 2 decades in order to pay Valor's legal fees