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Update by Charles Nichols, President of California Right To Carry – January 12, 2017 at 2:02 PM – San Diego Sheriff Gore’s attorney quickly responded to my request for the cert petition filed in this case. The same cannot be said of the attorneys for Orange County Sheriff Hutchens who never...
Three More Concealed Carry Appeals Lose
The first two decisions came 48 days after the paper copies of the supplemental briefs regarding the Peruta v. San Diego concealed carry decision were distributed.
The decisions are unpublished, which means they do no harm, and very short. They...
I thought I had created a thread about this case before but I couldn't find it. No matter, as I predicted AG Harris filed a motion to dismiss. The briefs can be found at my website here.
UPDATE November 2, 2016: The motions to dismiss are now online. Motion hearing set for February 13, 2017...
A pro se plaintiff managed to do what none of the so called gun-rights groups were able to do. Probably because all of the so called gun-rights groups were so busy trying to uphold prohibitions on Open Carry.
Plaintiff: Paul Murphy and CNMI
Case Number: 1:2014cv00026
Filed: December 24, 2014...
This time it was a CalGuns.nuts :banana: concealed carry lawsuit out of Santa Clara County which went down in flames -> Scocca v. Smith.
Update by Charles Nichols, President of California Right To Carry – September 30, 2016 – After notifying the Madison Society that it was dropping its...
Update August 15, 2016 by Charles Nichols – President of California Right To Carry – FULL COURT PETITION DENIED. Now we wait for the mandate to issue (7 to 30 days from August 15, 2016) at which point this case is over as far as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is concerned. All that is left...
From Connecticut's Brief in Opposition to the cert petition in Shew v. Malloy:
"At the same time that
the Act seeks to achieve compelling public health and
safety goals, it leaves the core of the Second
Amendment right to self defense intact. Connecticut
citizens remain free to lawfully...
Yesterday, April 8th, the Florida Supreme Court granted the motion by the NRA to enter the case as an Amicus in the Norman v. Florida Open Carry case, ostensibly in support of Norman.
I emailed the NRA lawyers asking them, rhetorically, if their Amicus brief was going to read like Act III...
EDIT: This thread was created when my April 5, 2016 update was relevant. That update is now obsolete.
For the current status of my California Open Carry appeal, click here.
WRENN et al v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al 16-7025
The gods do have a sense of humor.
Six days before the Caetano decision was published the District of Columbia appellate clerk laid out an accelerated briefing schedule, or at least it is by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals standards.
Alan Gura...
We won in Caetano v. Massachusetts
The Per Curiam decision in Caetano is available at the link above.
The pundits have differing opinions as to whether or not stun guns are protected arms or if the decision merely held that the reasoning by the Massachusetts high court in holding that stun...
My website has literally received more than 50,000 hits on my Peruta v. San Diego page but less than a 1,000 on my People v. Wade page even though a decision in the Wade case could have a greater and earlier impact on carrying a loaded gun in California.
If you are unfamiliar with the Peruta v...
The brief can be read here -> http://blog.californiarighttocarry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2015-650_brief_1188051.pdf
Amusingly, the state's brief cites Heller extensively in support of the state's claim that states can ban Open Carry. The now vacated and sharply divided three judge panel...
This is a Second & 14th Amendment carry case out of Massachusetts. It is not a concealed carry case.
A cert petition was filed with the US Supreme Court on September 9, 2015.
The cert petition is very well written. Importantly, it clearly identifies the existing circuit splits on whether or...
A draft of my press release -> http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8983547b55225326e869dd6a1&id=acad5fbc9a&e=
The Jackson v. San Francisco page at my website -> http://blog.californiarighttocarry.org/?page_id=1776
Update September 1, 2015 by Charles Nichols – President of California Right To...
By Dan Griffin, Michigan Open Carry
With the recent activities of Open Carry Texas lawfully asserting their rights in an effort to get the Texas legislature to vote for the legalization of openly carried handguns, and counter protests to that—including the poorly attended rallies of the...
This was an unexpected concession by California's Solicitor General during the en banc oral arguments in Peruta v. San Diego / Richards v. Prieto.
We owe a debt to Circuit Judge Carlos Bea who pinned the State down to clearly articulate its position on whether or not the Second Amendment is...
Justice Thomas wrote a dissent which was joined by Justice Scalia. Here is a link to my press release should you wish to read a longer explanation. The short version is that SCOTUS will not grant cert petitions in Second Amendment cases unless there is a circuit split. Since the decision in...
Details are at my website here. It is an interesting mix. We have two judges who gave us the two-step historical inquiry framework in US v. Chovan which is used by most of the Federal Circuits and we have one of the judges from the now vacated three judge panel decision in Peruta in which...