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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Loyalty Disarmament & the Undocumented by Pratheepan Gulasekaram
Loyalty Disarmament & the Undocumented by Pratheepan GulasekaramAbstractOver the past year, “loyalty-based” gun laws have taken on importance they have not had since the Revolutionary period when some colonial governments sought…
California Public Safety Labor Blog
SCOTUS Update: Law Enforcement Groups Again File Brief in Support of Petition for Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court to Review Excessive CCW Carry Restrictions
By Mastagni Law
On February 18, 2025, the Peace Officers’ Research Association of California, the California Association of Highway Patrolmen, the California State Sheriffs' Association and the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPPC) filed an amicus…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Guns, Young People, and Overturning Precedent
Last week, the Fifth Circuit, continuing to issue decisions likely to obtain further review in the Supreme Court, struck down a federal firearms law that prohibited selling handguns to 18-to-20…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Court Imposes Detailed Nonprofit Governance Reform on NRA
Last summer I told you that the NY Attorney General might be overstepping a bit in her effort to impose an internal "compliance monitor" on the National Rifle Association. La…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Grant of Preliminary Injunction by One Judge in the District Moots Appeal of Denial of Preliminary Injuction by Another Judge, Holds Tenth Circuit
In We the Patriots, et al. v. Grisham, No. 23-2066 (10th Cir. Oct. 28, 2024), the Tenth Circuit dismisses an appeal of the denial of preliminary injunction where, in a…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable new accounting of post-<em>Bruen</em> Second Amendment claims brought by 1,450 criminal defendants
This new Trace article, headlined "A Supreme Court Decision Claimed to Take Partisanship Out of Gun Cases. It Didn’t," provides a new accounting of Second Amendment cases since the Supreme…
Criminal
Notable new accounting of post-<em>Bruen</em> Second Amendment claims brought by 1,450 criminal defendants
This new Trace article, headlined "A Supreme Court Decision Claimed to Take Partisanship Out of Gun Cases. It Didn’t," provides a new accounting of Second Amendment cases since the Supreme…
The Right Coast
New Zealand Government Punishes Gun Owners for Their Political Beliefs
"Sixty-two firearms licence holders with views aligned to the Sovereign Citizens movement had their licences revoked after a police intelligence operation," Catherine Hubbard reported for the Waikato Times on October…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Police Minimalism in Domestic Violence
By Tracy Thomas
Michal Buchhandler-Raphael, Police Minimalism in Domestic Violence, 57 Arizona State Law J (forthcoming 2025)The United States Supreme Court’s June 2024 decision in U.S. v. Rahimi upheld the constitutionality of the federal ban…
The Faculty Lounge
CFP: Penn State Dickinson Law Review Second Amendment Symposium
This just in: The landscape of the Second Amendment has radically shifted post-New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. Every day, courts are holding that various long-standing firearms…