Stoetzl v. Dept. of Human Resources

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that many scholars, as well as its sibling courts, have agreed with the “virtuous citizen” reasoning for permitting governments to disarm “unvirtuous citizens”
• holding out the possibility of an “exceptional federal or state felony unmoored from the bar’s historical underpinnings” but conclud- ing that a person could be dispossessed of the right to bear arms for felony tax evasion
• observing that “dangerousness was one reason to restrict firearm possession”
• considering statutes from “the turn of the nineteenth century”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).