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U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law

Feb. 5, 2019

Liberty’s Teeth?

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case that could force a hard reexamination of the past decade of Second Amendment jurisprudence. And it could force the government to justify gun control laws with real hard evidence.

C.D. Michel

Senior Partner
Michel & Associates PC

180 E Ocean Blvd Ste 200
Long Beach , California 90802

Phone: (562) 216-4444

Email: cmichel@michellawyers.com

Loyola Law School

C.D. is a civil rights attorney, civil litigator and senior partner at Michel & Associates, LLP in Long Beach. Among its many other clients, the firm has represented firearm owners, retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, as well as the NRA and the California Rifle & Pistol Association since 1993.

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Liberty’s Teeth?
Notably, some courts have applied Heller faithfully, and some judges have dissented when their courts didn't. Perhaps the highest profile dissent came from now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit when he sat there. (New York Times News Service)

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court finally agreed to hear another Second Amendment challenge to a gun control law. The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, challenges New York City regulations that effectively ban la...

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