Round-Up: The D.C. Guns Appeal, Twombly Analysis

By Adam Chandler
on Sep 4, 2007 at 3:32 pm

The District of Columbia filed its petition to the Supreme Court today for review of the D.C. Circuit’s decision that its gun control law violated the Second Amendment. For Lyle’s coverage and analysis of the petition, along with links to the relevant documents, click here.

D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty and attorney general Linda Singer had this column, “Fighting for Our Handgun Ban,” in today’s Washington Post. They write that the Circuit Court’s decision “threatens public safety and is wrong on the law…[s]o we will fight.” Also in the Washington Post is Bob Barnes and David Nakamura’s report on today’s filing, here.

Tony Mauro has a post on the case at the Legal Times blog (the BLT), which reports that Alan Morrison will be arguing the case for the city, should the Justices decide to hear it. Morrison has previously argued 16 cases at the Court while working for the Public Citizen Litigation Group. The Associated Press story on the appeal is available here, via the Wall Street Journal Online.

Also, not related to District of Columbia v. Heller, Gregory P. Joseph (bio here) has prepared this article, “Supreme Court Rewrites Pleading Rules,” which analyzes the landmark case Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, decided in May 2007.