The Courthouse News Article began its coverage of our brief with this: ” Edwin Meese, former attorney general under President Ronald Reagan, filed his own brief along with the Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund in support of Flynn. The conservatives’ brief highlights an indelible moment between Flynn and Sullivan in 2018, when the judge said to the defendant in open court, “Arguably, you sold your country out.” Meese argued that the motion to dismiss was unusual, but not extraordinary, and that it is Attorney General William Barr’s responsibility to “terminate a baseless prosecution in the interest of justice.”
Article: Gun activists appeal to Virginia Supreme Court after judge rejects bid to halt gun ban in Capitol Square
The Richmond Times Dispatch covered our petition for review in the Virginia Supreme Court to challenge the Richmond Circuit Court’s refusal to enjoin Governor Northam’s Capitol Grounds gun ban.
Article: “Sixth Circuit Hears Debate Over Legality of Bump Stocks”
L-R: Rob Olson and Erich Pratt.
Today, Rob Olson presented oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in our continuing litigation against ATF’s bump stock regulation issued in December 2018. The issue today before the court was the correctness of District Judge Paul Maloney’s ruling denying our motion for a preliminary injunction against the regulation. This article in CourthouseNews discusses the oral argument.
ATF Firearms Industry Operations Manual Obtained via GOA FOIA Request
John Crump of Ammoland wrote an article about Gun Owners of America obtaining from ATF its internal “Firearms Industry Operations Manual.” This manual allows FFLs to better prepare for inspections by ATF. The manual was obtained by GOA in a matter our firm handled A PDF of the manual is available here.
The Advocate — Our Amicus Brief draws fire from the Homosexual Press
The homosexual website Advocate had some nice words about our amicus brief in Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC.
Article: Health Care of Thousands in CT at Stake as Court Set to Hear ACA Case
The CT Mirror carried a story discussing the ramifications of the Fifth Circuit Obamacare case Texas v. United States. The article quoted our amicus brief, filed May 8, 2019.
Article: Jeremy Kettler Petition for Cert Pending
An article in American Military Times discussed the petition for certiorari we filed for disabled Army veteran Jeremy Kettler challenging aspects of the National Firearms Act. The article reproduces a Tweet about the case sent by our firm. See Supreme Court to decide to hear US Army vet’s ‘unconstitutional’ gun suppressor this week after national controversy
FOIA Bombshell Disclosure — CU v. U.S. Department of State
Today we obtained for Citizens United, from FOIA litigation against the State Department, key documents concerning the FISA Warrants against Trump Campaign workers. For the first time, these documents demonstrate that even before the first FISA Application was filed, the FBI and Justice Department were on notice that the Steele dossier was unverifiable, contained errors, was politically generated,
Article: NPR Reports on GOA Bump Stock Litigation
National Public Radio ran a story about the Trump Administration’s regulation to ban bump stocks, and the legal challenge we filed for Gun Owners of America, in which Rob Olson of our firm was interviewed.
World Net Daily: Hawaii: Gun-Carry Ban Legitimate Because It’s Century Old
World Net Daily carried a story discussing the amicus brief we filed in Young v. Hawaii on November 19, 2018.
Article: State’s treatment of Christian baker likened to fascism
Bob Unruh wrote an article in World Net Daily about our amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to protect the religious liberties of businesses.
Article: Washington Examiner — “Brett Kavanaugh will be very good for property rights”
This article by Dick Patten of the American Business Defense Council in the Washington Examiner about the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh references our article in Case Western School of Law Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet. There, we discussed Judge Kavanaugh’s important dissent to the denial of a petition for rehearing en banc in a case that became United States v. Jones in the U.S. Supreme Court. We analyzed Judge Kavanaugh’s dissent in our amicus brief in Jones, and Justice Scalia’s decision embraced the originalist property-based foundation for the Fourth Amendment.
Law 360 Article Discusses our Harris Funeral Home Brief
Bill Olson was quoted in an article by Braden Campbell called “States, Faith Groups Tell Justices To Hear Trans Bias Case,” in Law 360: “’We have a lower federal judiciary that’s spinning out of control as circuits race toward political correctness, and if the Supreme Court doesn’t restore order, it’s hard to know where this is going to end,’ Olson said, referencing other rulings interpreting Title VII to cover gay workers.”
Article: Trump Administration Rift on LGBT Worker Rights Nears Showdown
Chris Opfer of BNA News wrote an article about the Zarda case where we filed a brief and other similar cases.where LGBTQ? advocates are asking judges to re-write the 1964 Civil Rights Act to grant them special rights.
The Article quotes Bill Olson, saying “Not only is it an effort to have a societal sanction for an immoral lifestyle, but it’s being accomplished by unelected judges who are admitting they are changing the law,”
Article: David Bossie — State Dept. says it’ll take 45 to 65 YEARS to provide records
David Bossie of Citizens United discusses State Department resistance to providing records relating to potential illegality during Obama Administration. Discusses two of the cases we have been litigating for Citizens United.
Article: CT Tribune — “State Dept. Asks Judge for 45 Years to Review Fake Dossier Docs”
This article in CT Tribune covered our FOIA lawsuit for Citizens United against the U.S. Department of State to obtain Obama official Victoria Nuland’s emails.
Article: Daily Caller Article Discusses our ATF Comments
Daily Caller article discusses our comments opposing Bump Stock Ban for Gun Owners Foundation.
Article: Multiple Pro-Gun Groups Submit Comments to ATF Over Proposed Bump Stock Ban
Townhall covered our comments to ATF on Bumpstock Regulations for Gun Owners Foundation.
Article: Court Filing Shreds Judges with Abortion Agendas
World Net Daily reviewed our brief in Whole Women’s Health v. Paxton. This article stressed our argument that judges who do not exhibit “good behavior” while in office are subject to removal.
Our Firm’s Amicus Briefs for GOA Ranked Among Highest in Policy Shifting Cases
Empirical SCOTUS ranked the amicus briefs we filed for Gun Owners of America (“GOA”) tied for 13th in the country in “Policy Shifting Cases” during the period 2000-16. This analysis focused on cases where the High Court struck down statutes as unconstitutional or overturned its own precedents. In this listing, GOA was rated above long-time powerhouse interest groups like the AFL-CIO and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The analysis is entitled “Amicus Policy Success in Impactful Supreme Court Decisions.”
The study reported: “Perhaps the biggest development in the modern Supreme Court alongside the great discretion the justices now have in dictating the cases they hear is the role of interest groups. Over the past several decades the Supreme Court has increasingly become the forum for such groups and their attempts at persuasion; the object of persuasion being the amicus brief…. Cases that lead the Court to rule statutes unconstitutional or to overturn its own precedent tend to have significant policy effects and the Court is often directed to such aspects of cases in early phases of litigation…. According to the United States Supreme Court Database, the Court has ruled a statute unconstitutional and/or has overturned its own precedent in 87 cases since the 2000 term. Approximately 836 merits stage amicus briefs were filed in this set of cases or just under 10 briefs per case on average. Several groups were clearly dominant in filing briefs on behalf of winning sides in these cases and consequently in moving policy in their preferred directions.”
Article: A Supreme Court case this week could change US digital privacy standards
This article on Quartz refers to our brief in the Supreme Court in Carpenter v. U.S., and mentions several of the amici on the brief.
U.S. visas to six Muslim nations drop after Supreme Court backs travel ban
This article in Reuters refers to our brief in the Supreme Court in support of the Trump travel ban, and quotes Mike Boos, General Counsel of Citizens United, one of the amici on the brief.
Article: Privacy advocates advise Supreme Court to protect phone location data under the 4th Amendment
This article in Tech Crunch discusses the brief we filed in the Supreme Court in the Carpenter case.
Article: “Trump, Pro-Gun Groups Headed for SCOTUS Duel?”
Bloomberg BNA carried an article discussing the brief we filed in U.S. v. Robinson on July 24, 2017.
Article: “Court gets refresher course in who actually writes laws”
World Net Daily ran an article about our firm’s brief filed in Zarda v. Altitude Express. The article addressed the factual problem with the case that we raised, in that the Appellant’s brief admitted that Zarda, a homosexual, was not fired because he was homosexual, but because he “over-shared” his sexual orientation with customers. The article also focuses on our argument that the Courts have no business legislating from the bench.