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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. ยง 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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