Petitions of the day
By Kate Howard
on Mar 9, 2017
The petitions of the day are:
16-847
Issue: Whether the petitioners are entitled to relief from the longstanding federal statute prohibiting felons from possessing firearms, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), based on their as-applied Second Amendment claim that their criminal offenses and other particular circumstances do not warrant a firearms disqualification.
16-983
Issue: Whether, as used in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(20)(B), the term “punishable by a term of imprisonment of two years or less” means “capable of being punished by a term of imprisonment of two years or less,” or “subject to a term of imprisonment of two years or less.”
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Sessions v. Binderup, Binderup v. Sessions
Recommended Citation:
Kate Howard,
Petitions of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Mar. 9, 2017, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/03/petition-of-the-day-1109/