Author: Anonymous Web Angel(GFZ)
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United States v. Ayala, (M.D. Fla.) A Big Win
How does this case affect anybody else? It doesn’t. This is an as applied challenge to the 18 U.S.C. §930(a), possessing a firearm in a Federal Facility. Mr. Emmanuel Ayala was a truck driver hauling mail for the U.S. Postal Service. He had a concealed carry permit from the state of Florida. It appears he…
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Subpoena?
The state can request a warrant upon presenting, to an authorized judicial authority, the proper reasons for a warrant to issue. Once a warrant has been issued, the state can then search in the named locations for the named items, and seize those items. For example, the state can claim that Bobby-Joe is operating a…
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Slimy Lawyering?
The other day, I noticed that the State of Washington was trying to serve a subpoena on a William English, PhD. I have not noticed professor English’s name before, according to the state, his study was cited in Hartford v. Ferguson. Digging deeper, I find: The AR-15 is America’s “most popular semi-automatic rifle,” id. at…
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Bianchi v. Brown, (4th Cir.) status update
On March 9, 2021, the case was docketed coming out of the District Court, District of Maryland. The district court had dismissed their case because [The] plaintiffs acknowledged in their Complaint that Plaintiffs’ theory of liability is foreclosed by the Forth Circuit’s opinion deciding Kolbe v. Hogan 849 F.3d 114 (4th Cir. 2017), and indeed,…
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Friday Feedback
It feels like I’ve been a bit light on postings this week. On the other hand, I’ve been busy as heck. I guess it balances out. I’m still doing the ESL classes. At the last company meeting, about 30% of the people taking the classes mentioned that it was very helpful for them. I also…
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Words Have Meaning, Learning to Hear Them Twisted
I spend far too much time thinking about communication. The words we pick have meaning, connotation, and implicit context. Consider the following phrases: I did well in my maths. It bit me in the arse. When I was at University. All three phrases are phrases from the UK. They imply something. When I say “the…
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Reloading, Conclusion – Part 12
Regardless of what tools you use to reload, you will end up with some reloaded cartridges. Hopefully, you didn’t make any major mistakes along the way. It is now time to inspect, test, and store. For me, I do initial testing of my loads. Generally, that is 5 per test. I change exactly one thing…
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Tuesday Tunes
Here’s a blast from the past! I hope you enjoy it. Warning, high quality headphones should be used.
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Why May v. Bonta is a big deal
B.L.U.F. The babblings of a not lawyer about just how good a weekend order from the Ninth Circuit was for The People. (1500 words) There is a name that should be familiar to us, but which is not, Federal Judge Jack Weinstein. He sat on the Eastern District of New York district court from 1967…
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May v. Bonta, Good news!
On December 20, 2023, District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Southern District of California granted the plaintiffs (good guys) motion for a preliminary injunction. This enjoined (stopped) the state of California from enforcing California Senate Bill 2. This was the “every place is sensitive, no guns allowed” bill. Quoting Judge Carney, . SB2’s…