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Clarence Thomas: “So you could just as easily sue large retailers of these products.”

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The question here is not whether any anything in the Constitution prohibits this lawsuit, but whether the specific theories that they raised in the Colorado Supreme Court passed upon below are valid. So you could just as easily sue large retailers of these products. I think nothing in the Constitution would prevent that. I think we would have. But nothing in your theory prevents that either. Nothing in our theory prevents that. (00:36–00:44)

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Suggests that large retailers could be sued under the same legal theory.

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