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Sentencing Law and Policy
Third Circuit panel upholds constitutionality § 922(g)(1)'s felon-in-possession gun prohibition after <em>Bruen</em>
A Third Circuit panel today issued the first major circuit ruling upholding the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), federal laws categorical prohibition on felons possession of firearms or ammunition…
Other
New district court opinion “holds that § 922(g)(8) is unconstitutional under <em>Bruen</em>‘s framework”
A few months ago, in a series of posts right after the Supreme Court's big Second Amendment decision Bruen (basics here), I suggested that a number of broad federal criminal firearm prohibitions…
The Right Coast
Gun laws, taxes: Why Eastern Oregon is voting on joining Idaho
Republican voters in Eastern and Central Oregon are so fed up with liberal lawmakers that they want to break rank and state lines and become part of Idaho.On Tuesday, two…
Religion Clause
Suit Challenges New York Ban on Firearms in Houses of Worship
Suit was filed this week in a New York federal district court challenging the constitutionality of New York's ban on carrying firearms in houses of worship. The complaint (full text)…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal judge orders briefing on whether to appoint historian to resolve challenge to federal felon gun possession ban after <em>Bruen</em>
This new CNN article, headlined "Federal judge blasts the Supreme Court for its Second Amendment opinion," alerted me to a notable new opinion emerging from new challenges to federal felon…
Criminal
“Guns, Mass Incarceration, and Bipartisan Reform: Beyond Vicious Circle and Social Polarization”
The title of this post is the the title of this new paper authored by Mugambi Jouet now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:Gun violence in modern America persists…
Adam Leitman Bailey's Blog
Can Your Landlord Ban Guns?
On June 25, 2022, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun reform bill into law whose aim is to reduce the threat of gun violence across the country. Of course,…
Religion Clause
NY Gun Ban at Places of Worship Violates 2nd Amendment
In Hardaway v. Nigrelli, (WD NY, Oct. 20, 2022), a New York federal district court issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of the provision in New York law that prohibits…
Commercial Litigation Update
Court Upholds Biden Vaccine Mandate and Bump Stock Ban; Remembering Laurence Silberman and Raymond Strother: SCOTUS Today
The October term of the Court began yesterday, with a sitting that marked the very active debut of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and predictions that this term will be even…
Regulatory Oversight
Democratic AGs Fire Back in Support of Gun Sale Merchant Code
By Stephen C. Piepgrass, Tim Bado
On September 30, 11 Democratic attorneys general (AGs), led by the AGs of the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and Delaware, sent a letter in support of major credit card…