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…
Dekalb Chief Answers Fingerprint Delay Complaint
Dekalb County Police Chief William O’Brien has filed an answer to GCO’s lawsuit in which GCO complaints that the department takes longer than 30 days to process background checks for GWLs. In his answer, Chief O’Brien denies every allegation in the complaint except that he is the police chief. He even denies that he is…
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