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7 Mar 2010, 11:34 am
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4 Mar 2010, 8:23 am
Chicago, Alan Gura managed no more than a couple of sentences before being interrupted by Chief Justice John Roberts and questioned about why Gura thought it was in his client’s interest to needlessly seek the reversal of 140 years of judicial precedent. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 3:58 am
In the opening minutes of the McDonald oral argument, Chief Justice Roberts told Alan Gura that he would have difficulty overruling the Slaughter-House Cases, "which have been the law for 140 years. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 3:45 am
That argument went nowhere; Alan Gura, McDonald’s lawyer, hadn’t gotten three paragraphs into it before Roberts jumped all over him, and Scalia buried the contention: “[W]hy are you asking us to overrule 150, 140 years of prior law. . . unless you are bucking for a place on some law school faculty. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 11:14 am
Given Randy’s earlier response to my initial prediction on how the Court might respond to Alan Gura’s Privileges or Immunities argument, I was hoping Randy might weigh in with his thoughts on the McDonald oral argument. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 3:30 pm
Scalia jumped all over McDonald’s attorney, Alan Gura, who had the temerity to argue that the text and history of the Privileges or Immunities Clause was relevant to the outcome of the case. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 3:21 pm
She claimed that “a large portion of the population at that time [1868] didn’t have those rights” and asked McDonald’s counsel Alan Gura whether “married women at that time across the nation ha[d] the right to contract, to hold property, to sue and be sued. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 3:17 pm
The Justice said the “privileges or immunities” argument was “the darling of the professorate” but wondered why [Alan Gura, the lawyer for gun rights advocates,] would “undertake that burden. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 2:26 pm
” The case was filed by Alan Gura, who successfully argued Heller, and Chicago-area attorney David G. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 12:43 pm
UPDATE: Michael Lotus offers praise for Alan Gura: “The P&I argument in McDonald was a stroke of genius. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 8:42 am
Alan Gura, who was arguing for the “privileges or immunities” route, ran into skepticism almost from the moment he began, when Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said Gura had a “heavy burden” because his approach entailed striking down the Slaughterhouse cases of 1873. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 8:26 am
The first argument to collapse as the hearing unfolded was the plea by the lawyer for gun rights advocates, Alan Gura of Alexandria, Virginia, that the Court should “incorporate” the Second Amendment into the 14th Amendment through the “privileges or immunities” clause. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 7:15 am
For the petitioners, their counsel: Alan Gura of Gura & Possessky, PLLC, counsel to the Second Amendment Foundation The Second Amendment Foundation’s brief is here. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 1:17 pm
Alan Gura of Gura & Possessky in Alexandria, Va., will argue for four Chicago-area residents and two gun rights groups, followed by Paul D. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 4:49 am
Feldman also argued cases before the Court during his long tenure with the United States Solicitor General; the litigator for the United States Government.Arguing on the other side will be Alan Gura, also of Washington DC, who won the District of Columbia vs Heller case on behalf of gun advocates. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 9:31 am
Why might Clement need time when the attorney for those challenging the ordinances, Alan Gura (pictured), seemed to do just fine on his own in the Heller case? [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 7:30 am
However, Robert Barnes of the Washington Post reports that Alan Gura, who will argue the case on March 2, is not interested in sharing the podium, or his argument time, with the NRA. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 2:35 pm
The original meaning evidence is discussed at great length in Bernard Siegan’s classic book Economic Liberties and the Constitution, and some of it is summarized in Alan Gura’s brief for the petitioners in the McDonald gun rights case currently before the Supreme Court. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 2:36 pm
As part of our special Christmas and Hanukkah programming on the VC, here is a 50-minute podcast interview with Alan Gura. [read post]
6 Dec 2009, 9:00 pm
Born in 1971, Alan Gura successfully argued Heller in the Supreme Court. [read post]
