"U.S. judge: Nation’s capital liable for wrongful arrests under struck-down gun ban"

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U.S. judge: Nation’s capital liable for wrongful arrests under struck-down gun ban
A federal judge found the D.C. government liable Wednesday for wrongfully arresting between 2012 and 2014 six people who were accused of violating its ban on carrying handguns in public.
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth did not rule on a motion seeking class-action status, but the decision, if upheld, could clear the way for claims for damages by as many as 4,500 people similarly arrested under the law the courts overturned in 2014, according to court filings.
Before retreating under adverse court rulings, D.C. officials defended the restrictions as reasonable and necessary in a city that struggles with gun violence and faces heightened security challenges because of a concentration of federal government buildings and diplomats.

Re: "U.S. judge: Nation’s capital liable for wrongful arrests under struck-down gun ban"

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sikacz wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:42 am Interesting. Wonder how this will turn out.

Yes, Judge Royce Lamberth is a Texan appointed to the DC District Court bench by Reagan. He cites Wrenn vs DC and the opinion of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a case that many hoped would reach SCOTUS. SCOTUS denied cert but it's still applicable in the District of Columbia.
The D.C. Circuit held that, at the core of the Second Amendment lies the right of responsible citizens to carry firearms for personal self-defense beyond the home, subject to longstanding restrictions. These traditional limits include, for instance, licensing requirements, but not bans on carrying in urban areas like D.C. or bans on carrying absent a special need for self-defense. In this case, the District's good-reason law is necessarily a total ban on most D.C. residents' right to carry a gun in the face of ordinary self-defense needs, where these residents are no more dangerous with a gun than the next law-abiding citizen. Therefore, the court could strike down the law apart from any particular balancing test. The court vacated the district courts' orders and remanded with instructions to enter permanent injunctions against enforcement of the good-reason law.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/ap ... 07-25.html

I expect this case will be cited when NYSRPA vs Buren is argued at SCOTUS on November 3rd.
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