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Federal Court Strikes Down Another Provision of New York’s New Gun Control Law

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Nigrelli : where the court ruled that the private property exclusion violates the Second Amendment. The state might have been able to reinforce an important right of private business owners to exclude guns with a reasonable drafting of the law. The new decision comes from Judge John Sinatra (W.D.N.Y.) in Christian v.

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Transgender Student’s Challenge to Bathroom Policy

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On December 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a major opinion in in Adams v. The court ruled 7-4 against a statutory and constitutional challenge of a transgender student to a district policy requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

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Federal Judge Enjoins Illinois’ Assault Weapon Ban

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The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court. Moderate efforts at gun control are often ramped up in the legislative process to become more and more sweeping.

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