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A Public Health Law Path for Second Amendment Jurisprudence
Michael R. Ulrich (Boston University), A Public Health Law Path for Second Amendment Jurisprudence, 71 Hastings L. J. 4 (2020):The two landmark gun rights cases, District of Columbia v. Heller…
The Right Coast
Breaking: SCOTUS blocks Trump from ending DACA, 5-4; Update: Trump says 2nd Amendment is next unless he’s re-elected
Can an executive order bind a successor? The Supreme Court decided that it can, at least under certain circumstances, in its widely anticipated decision on the Trump administration s attempts…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Over dissents by Justice Thomas, SCOTUS denies cert on qualified immunity and Second Amendment cases
I flagged in this post last week that the Supreme Court had been sitting on a number of qualified immunity and Second Amendment cases, which had prompted considerable speculation that…
The Right Coast
Thomas, Kavanaugh lament ‘decade-long failure to protect the Second Amendment’ | Fox News
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanagh on Monday admonished their fellow justices for letting Second Amendment cases languish in the lower courts in a dissent to the tribunal's decision…
Other
Over dissents by Justice Thomas, SCOTUS denies cert on qualified immunity and Second Amendment cases
I flagged in this post last week that the Supreme Court had been sitting on a number of qualified immunity and Second Amendment cases, which had prompted considerable speculation that…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
President Trump’s Misunderstanding of Federalism (by Prof. Ediberto Roman)
By SpearIt
President Donald Trump recently threatened to interfere with several states in their attempts to control the protests associated with the George Floyd murder. Trump’s edict, filled with hyperbolic language, photo…
Nahmod Law
The Second Amendment and Section 1983 (Podcast): A Section 1983 Conference Encore
As many of you know, Covid-19 prevented Chicago-Kent’s 37th Annual Conference on Section 1983 from taking place, as originally scheduled, on April 23-24, 2020. Still, in order to celebrate the…
Supreme Court Update
<em>New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. City of New York</em> (No. 18-280), <em>Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. </em>(No. 18-1150), <em>Maine Community Health Options v. United States, No. 18-1023</em>
By Tadhg Dooley, David R. Roth
As we noted a few days ago, the Court issued three new decisions early this week, including in a much-anticipated Second Amendment case (the first such case to reach the…
Simple Justice
NY Successfully Moots The Constitution
The best framing Larry Tribe could pull off was to call the case “kooky,” And he’s not wrong, but naturally not for the reasons he believes. As is well known…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS dismisses NYC Second Amendment case as moot (and Justice Alito dismisses public safety claims with gun rights at issue)
The Supreme Court resolved a closely watched Second Amendment case this morning, in a manner that is sure to be disappointing to Second Amendment fans. The Court's two-page per curiam…