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· 11/27/2019

Doddie Smith v. Civil Service Commission

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that post-Bruen courts have upheld restrictions on felons in possession of firearm bans and “there is no historical basis for distinguishing between types of felonies based on whether they were violent or nonviolent”
  • rejecting the defendant’s challenge to the felon-in-possession prohibition even though “it may be true that prohibitions on the possession of firearms by people convicted of felonies did not exist at the time of the framing of the Second Amendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judge Edwin A. Lombard; Judge Sandra Cabrina Jenkins; Judge Regina Bartholomew-Woods

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