Jun 09 2009
Supreme Court Petition Filed
Today we filed our petition to the Supreme Court.
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Archive for June, 2009
Jun 03 2009
On to the Supreme Court…
Yesterday the Seventh Circuit announced its decision in our case.
It wasn’t surprising, considering the panel’s comments at oral argument. Of course this decision is completely wrong. The Seventh Circuit should have conducted a modern selective incorporation analysis and held the Second Amendment incorporated. The dicta suggesting that the right to self-defense may be abrogated by statute, and that the exercise of fundamental individual rights can be curtailed at the state level as a nod to federalism, is particularly troubling.
In any event, Chicago’s gun ban is now one step closer to its demise. Our petition to the Supreme Court will be filed very soon. Watch this space for details….
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