Search for: "Heller, Appeal of" Results 381 - 400 of 1,058
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
23 Feb 2017, 7:17 am by Tom Smith
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has been busy uprooting the Second Amendment this week, delivering a stunning opinion which essentially overturns the Heller decision without so much as a by your leave to SCOTUS. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 10:51 am by Akira Tomlinson
Heller [opinion], the appeals court found that assault weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 5:11 am by SHG
  The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals just suffered from an outbreak of bad judging. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 4:44 am by Edith Roberts
” In an op-ed for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse looks at a cert petition filed last week that “asks the justices to decide the major issue left open by the Heller decision: whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a gun outside the home,” maintaining that the “mere fact that the appeal is pending is bound to play a role during the confirmation hearings for the next Supreme Court nominee. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 6:51 am by Liisa Speaker
A divided en bancSixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a district court’s order dismissing a Second Amendment challenge to the Federal ban on gun ownership by “anyone who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
This court joins a small but growing number of federal district courts to reach this conclusion, queuing up perhaps yet another appeal that pushes this issue closer to the Supreme Court.The tides turned with an EEOC ruling in 2015, in which the agency concluded that alleged discrimination against a gay man—because he was gay—constituted a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law banning employment discrimination on the… [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 6:50 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
But the Court of Appeals thinks Heller's comments were made in earnest, "and his conduct raised prudent concern about the risk of a school shooting. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 10:49 pm by Patricia Salkin
On February 28, 2012, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to sustain the appeal, thus revoking Teixeira’s conditional use permit and variance. [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 8:09 am by Itamar Mann
The latter is internal to IHL, and does not require an appeal to ICCPR or any other human rights treaty. [read post]
10 Sep 2016, 7:02 am by Rishabh Bhandari
Christine Fair, Ali Hamza, and Rebecca Heller highlighted some poll numbers reveal how huge swathes of Bangladesh’s public support a variety of highly illiberal views, including the morality of suicide terrorism. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 1:27 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
The New York Times writes that a 90-minute meeting between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to broker a ceasefire in Syria’s ongoing civil war. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 11:56 am by Adam Winkler
Over the past few Terms, the Supreme Court had numerous opportunities to review the constitutionality of such laws, which have been upheld by the federal courts of appeals. [read post]