GCO has filed another supplemental letter brief in its appeal of the case against the church carry ban in Georgia. In this supplement, GCO points out to the court that a U.S. District Court in North Carolina has ruled that the Second Amendment applies outside the home and that strict scrutiny applies to laws burdening…
Federal appellate rules provide that new authorities after oral argument can be brought to the Court’s attention via letter to the clerk. Because two recent district court decisions have found that the Second Amendment applies to the states, an issue in GCO’s case challenging Georgia’s ban on carrying firearms in churches, GCO has submitted a…
GCO has alerted the Clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit of the recent ruling in the 7th Circuit, which held that law-abiding citizens are entitled to a higher standard of review for Second Amendment cases than intermediate scrutiny. GCO had argued that very point in its reply brief in its…
Today, GCO filed its reply brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in its case challenging the constitutionality of the state ban on carrying firearms in places of worship. The court announced yesterday that it desires to hear oral arguments of the appeal. No date has been set, but it likely…
SCOTUS to Consider Church Carry on January 4, 2013
The Supreme Court of the United States is expected to consider GCO’s petition for certiorari in the church carry case on January 4, 2013. At a conference, the court decides whether to take a case. Conference decisions generally are reported the following Monday, or January 7.