historical-analysis

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6598 Ashley Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-rahimi-test commerce-clause firearms-regulation historical-analysis probation-status second-amendment Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), o…
25-5828 Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-rahimi-test commerce-clause firearms-regulation historical-analysis probation-status second-amendment Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), o…
24-1155 Melynda Vincent v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Tenth Circuit 2025-05-12 Pending Amici (2)Relisted (7) circuit-split constitutional-challenge firearm-disarmament historical-analysis nonviolent-felony second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm a person with a seventeen-year-old nonviolent felony conviction for t…
24-6427 Jose Paz Medina-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution gun-rights historical-analysis second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether courts must conduct a historical analysis to decide a Second Amendment challenge to a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) and whether the …
24-782 Bob Jacobson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety v. Kristin Worth, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied age-restriction constitutional-rights firearms-regulation historical-analysis public-carry second-amendment Does Minnesota's statute limiting permits for public carry of pistols to those 21 and older comport with the principles underlying the Second Amendmen…
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?
23-7787 Enrique Martinez-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure historical-analysis notice-clause prior-conviction-exception recidivism sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-notice-clause Can the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical practices…
23-910 Ivan Antonyuk, et al. v. Steven G. James, In His Official Capacity as Acting Superintendent of New York State Police, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-22 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process gun-rights historical-analysis judicial-review original-meaning second-amendment standing temporal-analysis Whether the proper historical time period for ascertaining the Second Amendment's original meaning is 1791, rather than 1868