Constitutional Law
Mar. 8, 2014
Lower courts sorting out decision in Heller
The Supreme Court decided Heller, stated broad constitutional principles, but left the lower courts, law enforcement and the public to sort out the nitty-gritty.
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
When the U.S. Supreme Court first decided that the Second Amendment conferred a personal right to bear arms in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), it answered a question that had divided scholars and the country in general for many years. Heller involved a federal jurisdiction, and subsequently, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 130 S.Ct. 3020 (2010), the court held that the states are bound to recognize these rights.
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