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  2. United States v. Emerson - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Emerson, 270 F.3d 203 (5th Cir. 2001), [1] cert. denied, 536 U.S. 907 (2002), [2] is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit holding that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees individuals the right to bear arms.

  3. Conflict of tort laws - Wikipedia

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    The English courts must apply wider international tests and respect any remedies available under the "Applicable Law" or lex causae including any rules on who may claim (e.g. whether a personal representative may claim for a fatal accident) and who the relevant defendant may be (i.e. the English court would have to apply the applicable law's ...

  4. Frivolous litigation - Wikipedia

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    Frivolous litigation is the use of legal processes with apparent disregard for the merit of one's own arguments. It includes presenting an argument with reason to know that it would certainly fail, or acting without a basic level of diligence in researching the relevant law and facts.

  5. Silveira v. Lockyer - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Supreme Court denied review, [4] despite the decision conflicting with the holding of the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Emerson. [5] In the U.S. Supreme Court case of District of Columbia v. Heller, [6] the opinion in Silveira v. Lockyer was overruled. The Supreme Court held in Heller that the right to keep and bear arms is a right ...

  6. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of ...

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    New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York, New York, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), abbreviated NYSRPA v.NYC and also known as NYSRPA I to distinguish it from the subsequent case, was a case addressing whether the gun ownership laws of New York City, which restrict the transport of a licensed firearm out of one's home, violated the Second Amendment to the United States ...

  7. Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Those chosen to be Supreme Court law clerks usually have graduated in the top of their law school class and were often an editor of the law review or a member of the moot court board. By the mid-1970s, clerking previously for a judge in a federal court of appeals had also become a prerequisite to clerking for a Supreme Court justice.

  8. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier - Wikipedia

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    Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held, in a 5–3 decision, that student speech in a school-sponsored student newspaper at a public high school could be censored by school officials without a violation of First Amendment rights if the school's actions were "reasonably related" to a ...

  9. Last resort rule - Wikipedia

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    The second application Brandeis furnished to demonstrate the last resort rule in Ashwander is the adequate and independent state ground doctrine: "Appeals [to the United States Supreme Court] from the highest court of a state challenging its decision of a question under the Federal Constitution are frequently dismissed because the judgment can be sustained on an independent state ground."