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UPDATE Wednesday p.m. The Court has now docketed District of Columbia v. Heller as 07-290. Analysis (The petition can be downloaded here, and the appendix is here. It will be assigned a ... their counsel, Robert A. Levy, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute. One of the six, Dick Anthony Heller, was found to have "standing." Tuesday's appeal in District of Columbia v. Heller challenges a March 9 ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court, striking down the Washington, D.C., law adopted ...

... ban -- one of the strictest gun control laws in the nation -- violates the Second Amendment. Attorneys for local resident Dick Anthony Heller, who had successfully challenged the pistol ban, have until Oct. 5 to reply to the city appeal, but ... before the Supreme Court. No one has ever been prosecuted in the city for using a lawful weapon in self-defense, it noted. Heller, the city added on another point, had agreed earlier to the stay of the Circuit Court ruling, to await the outcome of Supreme ...

... - although there are complications that might limit the scope of any final decision. The Court is expected to take its first look at the Heller case at its private Conference on Friday, Nov. 9. At the same time, the Court will consider a cross-appeal, Parker v. ... exact meaning of that ruling is still very much in dispute. The new case of District of Columbia v. Heller is about a handgun, a pistol, that Dick Anthony Heller would like to keep in his home in Washington, D.C. He tried to register it ...

... of the six Washington residents who filed the challenge did have a right to go to court to make the challenge. That individual was Dick Anthony Heller, a D.C. special police officeer who is allowed to carry a handgun on duty as a guard at the Federal Judicial ... lock or barring the carrying of any pistol not registered. The majority found those clauses, too, to be unconstitutional, as restricting Heller's right under the Second Amendment to have a gun available for personal protection in his home.

... Second Amendment. That is the sole issue raised in the city's petition in D.C. v. Heller (07-290). D.C. residents have filed a cross-petition (Parker v ... ruling striking down the city law, it found that only one local resident - Dick Anthony Heller - had a legal right to sue, thus excluding five other residents. ... complicate the pending litigation on the meaning of the Second Amendment." Since the Circuit Court upheld Heller's standing (which the city does not challenge), the officials said the city ...

... .) Last week, D.C. officials appealed to the Court (District of Columbia v. Heller, docket 07-290), seeking to revive the local handgun control law that has been ... "standing" to be in the case. (The Circuit Court found one D.C. resident, Dick Anthony Heller, did have standing, so proceeded to decide the case.) The other five could ... not directed against these five particular individuals, the Circuit Court said. (It found Heller had standing to sue, because he had sought a license to have a handgun, ...

... Court a cross-petition to the city government's appeal on the constitutionality of the local handgun ban statute (District of Columbia v. Heller, 07-290). The residents will ask the Court to find that they have standing to join in the case to help defend the law; standing was denied by the Circuit Court even as it upheld standing for a sixth resident, Dick Anthony Heller. To read the cert petition and appendix in the case, click here and here. Thursday is the deadline for the ...

... one's home. The brief suggested a different version of the issue at stake than had been posed by the District of Columbia government in its appeal in District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290). The brief in response can be found here. The brief on behalf of Dick Anthony Heller and five other Washingtonians said they welcome the city government's "effort to have this Court review the nature of Second Amendment rights. ...

... Amendment, it's not unusual for a law to be written more broadly than necessary for its main purpose. Justice Anthony Kennedy questioned the attorneys very actively, especially on the importance of self-defense in the Founding era. Justice Kennedy suggested that ... state attorneys general; and noted Second Amendment scholars. All the briefs in the case are available at www.nraila.org/heller. Listen to the audio recording of the oral arguments (RealPlayer required) View the transcript (PDF format)