licensing-law
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1076 | George Peterson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-12 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Waived | constitutional-challenge firearm-suppressors licensing-law National-Firearms-Act Second-Amendment taxation-and-registration | 1. Whether the National Firearms Act's taxation-and-registration scheme for covered firearms can be justified as a licensing law. 2. Whether the Nati… |
| 25-575 | Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-law professional-speech speech-conduct | 1. Whether a burden on speech must be incidental merely because it is imposed by an occupational licensing law. 2. Whether a law that imposes inciden… |
| 24-279 | 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation | In an as-applied First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's surveyor-licensing law, the Fifth Circuit in 2020 held that the standard for determining w… |
| 22-5748 | James Atkinson v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-possession licensing-law second-amendment standing subjective-standard takings | 1. Whether Mass. Gen. Laws. ch. 140, § 131(f)—which authorizes the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to suspend a law-abiding, adult citizen's License to … |