RESTRAINING ordersThis Viewpoint explicates the complex reasoning the US Supreme Court has used in rulings on gun control and raises concerns that the recent Rahimi decision poses more questions than it settled on the future of the Second Amendment.Gostin, Lawrence O....
The gun industry is asking the Supreme Court to reverse that decision, warning that it could open the door to a flood of lawsuits from other foreign and U.S. governmental entities seeking to hold the firearms industry accountable for the violence perpetrated by users of their weapons. W...
The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, a major expansion of gun rights.
Date: March 8, 2024 Docket Number: 123797 Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of the State of Kansas reversed a lower court's decision, holding that a warrantless traffic stop and subsequent search of a vehicle was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. The case involved… William...
Liberal and conservative justices sounded persuaded by arguments from the Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer that the prohibition is in line with the longstanding practice of disarming dangerous people. The court’s decision in the new case could have widespread ripple effects, includ...
The ruling indicates that some longstanding gun laws are likely to survive despite the court's 2022 decision that expanded gun rights by finding for the first time that there is a right to bear arms outside the home under the Constitution's Second Amendment. ...
issue in the legal battles have been on the books for years, but came under renewed scrutiny in the wake of theSupreme Court's June 2022 decisionthat imposed a new framework for evaluating the constitutionality of gun restrictions. In that ruling, the court said that for firearms laws to ...
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace firearms without serial numbers.
Democrats and Republicans reacted differently to the Supreme Court decision, as the divided Senate is debating a gun safety bill introduced after the Uvalde school shooting amid public outcry against longtime political inaction. U.S. President Joe Biden responded that he is "deeply disappointed" by...
"That suggests it could be a 5-4 decision upholding the rule or at least in part, and key votes would be the chief justice and Justice Barrett," Willinger said. "It seems like there's more of an intuitive case that these gun assembly kits are firearms in natural parlance." The Biden...