A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. The Supreme ...
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The ruling, which emphasizes the lack of historical support for such a law, is unlikely to survive en banc review.
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A dissenting panel of federal judges for the Ninth Circuit on Friday deemed California's open carry ban in most counties ...
A federal appeals court invalidated California’s open-carry ban, citing Second Amendment rights and the Supreme Court’s Bruen ...
US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, said the Democratic-led state's law could not ...
A Ninth Circuit panel said the ban ran afoul of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that required courts to evaluate gun laws based ...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the ban, which applied to counties with populations greater than ...
A short excerpt from today's very long opinion in Baird v. Bonta by Judge Lawrence VanDyke, joined by Judge Kenneth Lee: ...
The appellate ruling on Friday leaned heavily on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision on a New York state gun law.