Bleiler v. Chief, Dover Police Department

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “the New Hampshire state constitutional right to bear arms is not absolute and may be subject to restriction and regulation,” and adopting a “reasonableness test” for evaluating substantive due process challenges to such regulations (quotation omitted)
• stating that vagueness may invalidate a statute if the statute “fail[s] to provide the kind of notice that will enable ordinary people to understand what conduct it prohibits”
• considering whether Legislature had “a reasonable purpose” and “use[d] a reasonable means to achieve [that] purpose”
• distinguishing rational-basis test from reasonableness test, which “focuses on the balance of the interests at stake” (quotation omitted)
• distinguishing rational-basis test from reasonableness test, which “focuses on the balance of the interests at stake” (quotation omitted)
• considering whether Legislature had “a reasonable purpose” and “use[d] a reasonable means to achieve [that] purpose”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).