Constitutional Law Court Rules District of Columbia Litigation 
JonathanTurley
JUNE 23, 2022
In 2008, the Supreme Court recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) Two years after Heller, in McDonald v. 2)(f) that require a showing of “proper cause.”
JonathanTurley
JUNE 4, 2022
New York has long been the source of major litigation over gun control. That includes the possible loss before the Supreme Court in a pending major gun rights case. ” The New York law could offer an important test of the outer boundaries of this right after the Court rules in the pending case.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 18, 2021
The case promises to be a showdown between the Supreme Court and lower courts, which have been chipping away at the high court’s prior Second Amendment rulings. In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The federal government also is subject to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits the government and other covered entities like the District of Columbia from “substantially burden[ing]” a person’s exercise of religion. They also can refile if the lower court has not reached a decision by Oct.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Glucksberg , a case in which he helped persuade the court to unanimously uphold Washington’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
AUGUST 4, 2021
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Court Said Climate Scientist Provided Sufficient Evidence of Actual Malice for Blog Authors but Not for Publisher.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2023
They have pushed ill-considered legislation and litigation that only served to create precedent against gun control. Courts likely would press the Biden administration on why it is seeking to ban this model when other higher-caliber weapons are sold. In the past, politicians in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C.,
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