Punch and Jurists

Worman v. Healey, No. 1:17-cv-10107 (D.Mass.) ( F.Supp.3d ) (April 5, 2018) (Judge Joseph H. Young) by In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment decision, the Court struck down a District of Columbia law that made it illegal to possess handguns …

Kolbe v. Hogan, No. 14-1945 (4th Cir.) (813 F.3d 160) (February 4, 2016) (Judge William B. Jr. Traxler) by Here, in a decision that was quickly granted a re-hearing en banc, a sharply divided panel struck down, as unconstitutional, a new Maryland law that banned most citizens from possessing assault …

N.Y.S. Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Cuomo, No. 14-36-cv (2nd Cir.) (804 F.3d 242) (October 19, 2015) (Judge Jose A. Cabranes) by In December, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza used three semiautomatic weapons to kill 20 children and six adults,at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In committing that …

Friedman v. City of Highland Park, Ill., No. 14-3091 (7th Cir.) (784 F.3d 406) (April 27, 2015) (Judge Frank H. Easterbrook) by No matter how many deaths are caused every day in the United States by assault weapons with large-capacity magazines, the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) pushes on with almost …

Friedman v. Highlland Park, No. 15-133 (U.S. Supreme Court) (577 U.S. ___; 136 S.Ct. 447) (December 7, 2015) (Per Curiam) by Usually, it is of little import when the Supreme Court denies certiorari in a given case; after all, it denies certiorari in thousands of cases each year. But the …

U.S. v. Serna, No. 04-10597 (9th Cir.) (435 F.3d 1046) (January 23, 2006) (Judge Alex Kozinski) by Here the Court added another permutation to the nearly endless lore and the unfathomable logic about what constitutes a “crime or violence” by holding that the possession of an assault weapon by a …