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U.S. v. Skoien, No. 08-3770 (7th Cir.) (587 F.3d 803) (November 18, 2009) (Judge Diane S. Sykes)

Loaded on Nov. 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists November 02, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence.

Here the Court upheld a Second Amendment challenge to a conviction for possession of a gun by a domestic violence misdemeanant under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) on the grounds that the Government had failed to justify the validity of that statute.

Last June, in its landmark ruling in District of …

 

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