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Friday, November 20, 2009

Courts - Still more on the McDonald v. Chicago cert grant

Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 1, 2009, Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog had this entry yesterday headed "Will Gun-Control Case Prompt a Constitutional Reawakening?" It begins:

Our interest in a single Supreme Court case has perhaps never been as high as it is in a case currently being briefed. The issues are fascinating on several levels, and the potential impact of a ruling is big.

The case is McDonald v. City of Chicago, for which the court granted cert on Sept. 30. The petitioners in the case, a group challenging a gun-control ordinance in Chicago, filed their brief with the court earlier this week. Were the court to adopt their position — something well within the realm of possibility — we could be looking at a significant shift in the way the justices view the Constitution and individual rights.

[More] See also this posting by Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSLaw, originally posted Nov. 16, but updated.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 20, 2009 08:58 AM
Posted to Courts in general