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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's state Supreme Court election next spring already had high stakes, with majority control on the line. But a judge's ruling this week restoring collective ...
The increased activity on the gun rights docket stems from the court's relatively new embrace of an individual right to bear arms as first articulated in a 2008 ruling but expanded significantly ...
In a ruling that limits the 2nd Amendment, the justices vote 8 to 1 that dangerous people who have threatened a domestic partner can lose their right to possess a gun. Supreme Court rejects gun ...
Rybar (3d Cir. 1996) [16] - In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Congress did have the power to regulate possession of homemade machine guns under the Commerce Clause, later reaffirmed by the Supreme Court. The Third Circuit made this decision 2–1, with future Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in dissent.
Wisconsin is a shall-issue state for concealed carry licensing. As of November 1, 2011, Wisconsin residents may apply for a concealed carry license through the Wisconsin Department of Justice. The law allows Wisconsin to become the 49th state in the Union to make some provision for the concealed carry of firearms by normal citizens. [5] [6] [7]
Wisconsin's Republican legislature, however, appealed the case to the United States Supreme Court, which threw out the Wisconsin decision in a shadow docket opinion. [29] The U.S. Supreme Court stated that the adhoc process adopted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court had failed to give proper consideration to questions of racial gerrymandering under ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a Hawaii man's bid to throw out criminal charges for carrying a pistol while hiking, as the justices declined to review a ruling by the liberal ...
In a second case, the Supreme Court of Hawaii upheld a state requirement for having a permit to carry a gun in public, ruling that the recent decision of Bruen and other gun rights cases by the U.S. Supreme Court since Heller have turned against the "militia-centric" reading of the Second Amendment, and that "states retain the authority to ...