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McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
McDonald v. Board of Election Commissioners of Chicago , 394 U.S. 802 (1969), [ 1 ] was a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that an Illinois law that denied absentee ballots to inmates awaiting trial did not violate their constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment .
Cases v. United States (1st Cir. 1942) [10] was the next federal Second Amendment case after Miller. The opinion upheld the conviction concluding that "there is no evidence that the appellant was or ever had been a member of any military organization or that his use of the weapon under the circumstances disclosed was in preparation for a ...
In the 2010 case of McDonald v. Chicago, the Court applied incorporation doctrine to extend the Second Amendment's protections nationwide The people's right to have their own arms for their defense is described in the philosophical and political writings of Aristotle, Cicero, John Locke, Machiavelli, the English Whigs and others.
Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Tyrrell v. District of Columbia: 1 (1917) White none none D.C. Cir. dismissed Wellsville Oil Company v. Miller: 6 (1917) White none none Okla. affirmed Bond v. Hume: 15 (1917) White none none 5th Cir. certification Union National ...
Earlier this year, New York’s Court of Appeals (the state’s highest court) issued a decision in a case called People v. Franklin. At the heart of the case is the Sixth Amendment’s ...
The ongoing saga of Chicago teenager Lauren McClusky and her fight to keep the name McFest attached to her charity concert event -- even as McDonald's attorneys seek to block her from doing so ...
In McDonald v. Chicago (2010), Justice Clarence Thomas, while concurring with the majority in incorporating the Second Amendment against the states, declared that he reached this conclusion through the Privileges or Immunities Clause instead of the Due Process Clause.