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Municipal Minute
Appellate Court Remands Second Amendment Challenge to County Gun Taxes
Cook County adopted two ordinances to impose a special retail tax on the purchase of firearms and firearm ammunition. In 2015, a group of plaintiffs challenge the tax claiming it…
Health Law Prof Blog
Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen
Eric Ruben (Southern Methodist University), Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen, Minn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024):The Supreme Court declared in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.…
Appellate and Supreme Court
“Reevaluating Felon-in-Possession Laws After <em>Bruen</em> and the War on Drugs”
The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN authored by Laura Ginsberg Abelson. Here is its abstract:The legal landscape surrounding firearm possession…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Second Amendment Immigration Exceptionalism by P. Deep Gulasekaram
Check out this essay by immprof P. Deep Gulasekaram (Colorado): Second Amendment Immigration Exceptionalism, 77 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 51 (2024). Here's a sneak peek:Recently, a federal district court…
Criminal
“Refining the Dangerousness Standard in Felon Disarmament”
The title of this post is the title of this essay recently posted to SSRN and authored by Jamie G. McWilliam. Here is its abstract:For a regulation of the Second…
California Public Safety Labor Blog
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Injunction Against S.B. 2’s Ban on Licensed CCW Authorization in Almost All Public Places
By Mastagni Law
On January 6, 2024, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved a stay of a district court’s injunction against Senate Bill 2’s near-total ban on CCW…
The Right Coast
California’s ‘Repugnant’ Restrictions on Public Gun Possession Just Took Effect
California's sweeping new restrictions on public possession of firearms, many of which a federal judge enjoined this month after deeming them "repugnant to the Second Amendment," took effect today thanks…
Criminal
After <em>Rahimi</em>(?): mapping out the next big Second Amendment cases
After the Supreme Court in Heller in 2008 (and McDonald in 2010) first established an enforceable individual Second Amendment right, we all had to wait another dozen years until the…
Criminal
Applying <em>Range</em>, federal judge rules 922(g)(1) violates Second Amendment as applied to person with old DUI conviction
Over at Reason, Jacob Sullum has this effective account of yet another federal district court ruling that a federal criminal gun prohibition violates the Second Amendment. Here is how Sullum's…
Criminal
Federal court rules Second Amendment precludes felon-in-possession prosecution for defendant facing 15-year ACCA mandatory minimum
I have not sought to keep track of all the on-going litigation in district courts over whether federal felon-in-possession prosecutions under 18 USC § 922(g)(1) are still constitutional after Bruen. …