Law and the Courts

BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down New York’s ‘May Issue’ Concealed Carry Law

The United States Supreme Court has  struck down New York’s “proper cause” or “may issue” requirement for obtaining concealed carry permits in an opinion handed down today in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association…


City of Brooklyn Center Agrees to Pay Daunte Wright’s Family $3.2 Million in Wrongful Death Settlement

From the Associated Press . . . A suburban Minneapolis city has agreed to pay $3.2 million to the family of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a police officer who said she confused…


Wehle: To Do Something About Guns, We Need the Courts to Ignore the Law So Plaintiffs Can Bankrupt Firearm Manufacturers

  One way to address negative externalities is for the government to intervene through subsidies, taxes, or legal constraints on the producer. But when it comes to guns, Republican legislators are overwhelmingly unwilling to take…


Happy Ending: New York’s High Court Rules an Elephant in the Bronx Zoo is Not Human

New York’s highest court — the New York Court of Appeals — rejected by a 5-2 decision the anti-hunting group Nonhuman Rights Project’s (NhRP) lawsuit claiming Happy the Elephant isn’t an animal and instead had “personhood”…


Amanda Marcotte Tells Us She Doesn’t Understand How the Law Works Without Telling Us She Doesn’t Understand How the Law Works

Among the many decisions where the court will likely go full Infowars is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a challenge to New York’s law requiring people seeking a concealed carry license to demonstrate “proper…



Would-Be Assassin Was Worried Justice Kavanaugh Would Loosen Gun Control Laws

Nicholas John Roske, the armed man who was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house early this morning, said he’d been thinking about how to give his life purpose. After cogitating on that for…


Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Was Worried About the Justice Loosening Gun Control Laws

Nicholas John Roske, the armed man who was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house early this morning, said he’d been thinking about how to give his life purpose. After cogitating on that for…


Man With a Gun Arrested Outside Justice Kavanaugh’s House, Said He Intended to Kill Him

By Mark Sherman and Michael Balsamo, AP The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an armed man (not pictured above) who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice’s house in Maryland. The…


PA Court Rules Pittsburgh DA Violated the Law in Refusing a Criminal Complaint Against the Mayor, City Council for Enacting Illegal Gun Control Ordinances

From Gun Owners of America Today, a Commonwealth Court three-judge panel ruled that Allegheny County District Attorney, Stephen Zappala, violated Pennsylvania’s Rules of Criminal Procedure by refusing to accept a private criminal complaint from four Pittsburgh residents…