BAKER v. GOODMAN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE TERRY R. BAKER et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) 2:19-cv-00251-JAW ) NICHOLAS GOODMAN et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS COMPLAINT Shortly after a pawn shop sold a customer a BB rifle,1 a police officer shot and killed the customer in the parking lot outside the pawn shop. Personal representatives of the estate of the decedent filed suit against the pawn shop, alleging that it was negligent in selling the BB rifle to the decedent and in failing to notify the police that its customer possessed not a firearm but a BB rifle.…