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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A192 Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete begging-laws first-amendment founding-era free-speech historical-tradition speech-categories Whether historical practice and tradition at the time of the founding categorically exclude begging from First Amendment free speech protection
24-93 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Madison M. Lara, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-30 GVR 2nd-amendment age-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms-law founding-era gun-rights historical-analysis historical-evidence rahimi second-amendment Do firearms laws that restrict the rights of 18-to-20-year-olds comply with the Second Amendment?
23-880 National Association for Gun Rights, et al. v. City of Naperville, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment civil-rights common-use constitutional-rights due-process firearms-regulation founding-era handgun-ban heller-precedent heller-vs-dc second-amendment semi-automatic-weapons Is the State of Illinois' ban of certain handguns constitutional?
18-6515 Kevin Wayne Vanover and Meredith Ann Yates v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment,constitutional-interpretation,histor civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-rights founding-era government-power historical-evidence historical-intent individual-liberty military-force right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to be prepared to resist abuse of government power by military force, with equal force