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Quon Topside Brief Filed

Today, the Petitioner’s Brief and Joint Appendix were filed in City of Ontario, et al. v. Quon, et al., No. 08-1332. The Quon case involves the issue of whether the search of a government-issued text-messaging pager used by a SWAT member to send and receive hundreds of personal messages violates the Fourth Amendment right to unreasonable searches [...]

McDonald v. City of Chicago—The Reply Brief

Shon R. Hopwood2019-03-18T18:48:14-05:00January 29th, 2010|Tags: Citizens United v. FEC, McDonald v. City of Chicago, No. 08-1521, The Slaughterhouse Cases|

Today, Cockle filed the Petitioner’s Reply Brief in McDonald v. City of Chicago, No. 08-1521. In that brief, McDonald’s counsel of record, Alan Gura, once again calls on the Court to overrule The Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), or in the alternative, hold that the Due Process Clause incorporates the Second Amendment [...]