The Supreme Court’s eventual ruling, expected by late June, could also affect other similar lawsuits stemming from mass shootings. That aspect of the case didn’t appear to be a heavy focus during oral arguments, however. Smith & Wesson attorney Noel Francisco said in a statement that the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal ban on firearms for domestic violence offenders.
Justice Clarence Thomas, in a statement joined by Justice Samuel Alito, criticized the Hawaiian court for its ruling, but said the high court was right to dismiss the challenge on technical grounds. However, he wrote that the court should hear an "appropriate case" to "make clear that America...
Taken together, the actions reflect the high court’s apparent lack of appetite for cases that further explore the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms.” The court has repeatedly turned away gun cases since its 2022 ruling that expanded gun rights and a clarifying 2024 decision that up...
A majority ofSupreme Courtjustices on Tuesday appeared inclined to uphold a 30-year-oldfederal ban on firearmsfor people under domestic violence restraining orders. At the same time, during oral arguments in the caseU.S. v. Rahimi, several conservative justices seemed to seek...
While the court fights in New Jersey and New York have involved new laws enacted in response to the Supreme Court's decision, the new legal test set forth by the high court puts federal laws that predated the ruling in jeopardy.
history-based standard for review gun prohibitions. In order to pass judicial scrutiny, the court ruled, a gun law must have some connection with gun regulations in place at the time of the nation’s founding. That ruling has sparked considerable uncertainty in lower cou...
The Supreme Court said Thursday, June 23, 2022 that Americans have a right to carry guns in public, a major expansion of gun rights. The court struck down a New York gun law in a ruling expected to directly impact half a dozen other populous states. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File) ...
The law wasstruck downby a three-judge appeals court panel after a landmark2022 Supreme Courtruling that expanded gun rights and said firearm laws must have strong roots in the country's historic traditions. It waslater revived, though, by the full 4th U.S. Circuit Cou...
The justices heard arguments in an appeal by firearms maker Smith & Wesson and distributor Interstate Arms of a lower court’s ruling allowing the lawsuit to proceed on the grounds that Mexico has plausibly alleged that the companies aided and abetted illegal gun sales, harming its government. ...