Law and the Courts

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…


Center to Keep and Bear Arms Sues Washington Over ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban

Fromt the Mountain States Legal Foundation . . . The American People have a natural, constitutionally protected right to choose the self-defense tools they need to protect their lives and loved ones. To uphold that right,…


FPC Pittsburgh Win – City’s ‘Assault Weapons’ and ‘High Cap’ Magazine Bans Violate Pennsylvania’s Preemption Law

From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . . Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) today announced an appellate victory in FOAC v. Pittsburgh, Penn., a lawsuit filed in 2019 in response to a gun control scheme…