Chief of Police of Shelburne v. Moyer

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[t]here is no right under art. 17 of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution for a private citizen to keep and bear arms”
• “There is no right under art. 17 . . . for a private citizen to keep and bear arms . . .”
• “There is no right under art. 17 of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution for a private citizen to keep and bear arms . . .”
• court upheld police chiefs refusal to issue license to an applicant who had pled guilty to possession of marijuana, even though the case was later dismissed and the conviction sealed
• “To warrant a finding that a chief of police had no reasonable ground for refusing to issue a license it must be shown that the refusal was arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).