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Sentencing Law and Policy
Second Amendment uncertainty continues as SCOTUS GVRs challenge to federal ban on felon gun possession
The Supreme Court issued this short order list this morning without adding adding any new cases to its merits docket via a certiorari grant. But there was a grant with…
Appellate and Supreme Court
Second Amendment uncertainty continues as SCOTUS GVRs challenge to federal ban on felon gun possession
The Supreme Court issued this short order list this morning without adding adding any new cases to its merits docket via a certiorari grant. But there was a grant with…
Criminal
En banc Ninth Circuit broadly rejects Second Amendment challenge to federal felon-in-possession prohibition
Yesterday the Ninth Circuit via a lengthy en banc ruling in US v. Duarte, No. 22-50048 (9th Cir. May 9, 2025) (available here), rejected a Second Amendment challenge to the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
En banc Ninth Circuit broadly rejects Second Amendment challenge to federal felon-in-possession prohibition
Yesterday the Ninth Circuit via a lengthy en banc ruling in US v. Duarte, No. 22-50048 (9th Cir. May 9, 2025) (available here), rejected a Second Amendment challenge to the…
Legal Theory Blog
Zick on Public Carry Doctrine
Timothy Zick (William & Mary Law School) has posted Firearms and Fora: Constructing Public Carry Doctrine (forthcoming, Boston University Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Where can a…
Legal Theory Blog
Welch on a Second Amendment Right to Hunt
Charles Welch (Widener University - Delaware Law School) has posted Heller, History, and Hunting on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It is intuitive that the Second Amendment would protect a…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
En Banc Ninth Circuit Panelists Clash Over Validity of a Video Dissent
In Duncan v. Bonta, No. 23-55805 (9th Cir. Mar. 30, 2025) (en banc) – a Second Amendment challenge to California’s ban on large-capacity magazines – the en banc Ninth Circuit…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
Iowa Supreme Court issues split rulings on firearms rights
By Rox Laird
The Iowa Supreme Court handed down two rulings Feb. 21 addressing firearms rights under state and federal law. The court reached different conclusions in the two cases, restoring an individual’s…
Legal Theory Blog
Download of the Week: “Is History Precedent?” by Larsen
The Download of the Week is Is History Precedent? by Alli Orr Larsen. Here is the abstract: It has been just over two years since the Supreme Court instructed lower…
Legal Theory Blog
Denning & Reynolds on Rahimi
Brannon P. Denning (Samford University - Cumberland School of Law) & Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) has posted United States v. Rahimi: Five Takes (63 Houston…