The justices reversed a ruling from the federal appeals court in New Orleans that had struck down the law.
Supreme Court is in its final stages of pretending to carefully consider the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns. The oral arguments in March hinted at the final decision, given that, while questioning counsel, Justice Antonin Scalia was also cleaning his Glock 9mm automat...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to preserve a federal law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. In their first guns case since last year’s expansion of gun rights, the justices suggested that they will reverse a ruling from an app...
The Supreme Court provided some clarity about its new standard this past June, when ituphelda federal firearms prohibition for alleged domestic abusers, but lower courts have still struggled to apply the framework when assessing the constitutionality of firearm restrictions. That decision involved whether...
A federal district court in Syracuse, New York,blocked provisionsof the law from being enforced after drawing on the framework set forth in the Bruen decision, but the 2nd Circuit allowed them to go into effect. The gun owners asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but the court declined,lea...
Prelogar said the standard for "responsible" citizen should be "dangerousness" with respect to the use of firearms. The justices will vote on the case and spend the upcoming months drafting a decision, which is expected for release by the end of June....
The Supreme Court last issued amajor gun decision in 2010. In that decision and aruling from 2008the justices established a nationwide right to keep a gun at home for self-defense. The question for the court this time was about carrying one outside the home. Thomas wrote in his opinion ...
As I have previously documented, last term the Roberts Court decided five landmark cases — two abortion controversies, one gun case and monumental legal disputes about former President Donald Trump’s disqualification and presidential immunity — all in
Nash and Koch challenged the constitutionality of New York's prohibition on carrying handguns in public and the proper-cause requirement in 2018. A federal district court dismissed their suit, and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision, leaving the licensing regime in place...
decision, the Supreme Court tossed out lower court rulings invalidating two separate federal firearms restrictions as applied to their individual challengers, as well as a lower court ruling that upheld provisions of a New York law. It sent the cases back to the lower courts for additional ...