In United States v. Rahimi, the Supreme Court held that an individual who has been judged to pose a clear threat to another can be temporarily disarmed consistent with our history and tradition of firearm regulation. In doing so, the Court clarified that in...
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2024 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2024 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2024 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2024 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreYesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted, vacated, and remanded for reconsideration in light of United States v. Rahimi eight Second Amendment decisions pending writs of certiorari. All but one of the cases have to do with persons prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law. Five...
Read MoreSean Phillips is a rising third year law student at Fordham University School of Law. He is a Senior Articles Editor on Fordham Law Review, where his note, Long Range Analogizing After Bruen: How to Resolve the Circuit Split on the Federal Felon-In-Possession Ban, was published...
Read MoreJamie G. McWilliam is a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from Montana State University. The Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, 54 U. S....
Read MoreWhen most people think of Article III federal courts, they visualize a system that consists of trial courts (at least one in each state), an intermediate appellate court (a federal circuit, a District of Columbia circuit, and 11 circuits that review cases from trial courts...
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