United States, Petitioner v. Zackey Rahimi

  1. June 25, 2024

    After Rahimi Win, Feds Set Sights On Felon Gun Ban

    In a bid to capitalize on last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a federal law that prohibits domestic abusers from possessing firearms, the U.S. solicitor general has called on the justices to next tackle a slew of constitutional challenges to the separate, sweeping ban on people convicted of felonies owning guns.

  2. June 21, 2024

    Justices Keep Domestic Abusers Disarmed, Clarify Bruen

    The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Texas man's constitutional challenge to a federal law prohibiting people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms Friday, providing limited guidance to lower courts on how to apply the high court's Second Amendment historical analogue test.

  3. June 01, 2024

    Blockbuster Summer: 10 Big Issues Justices Still Must Decide

    As the calendar flips over to June, the U.S. Supreme Court still has heaps of cases to decide on issues ranging from trademark registration rules to judicial deference and presidential immunity. Here, Law360 looks at 10 of the most important topics the court has yet to decide.

  4. January 08, 2024

    Supreme Court Is Suddenly Embroiled In A Term For The Ages

    When 2024 began, the U.S. Supreme Court's docket — spanning abortion, guns, social media, the modern regulatory system and more — already seemed certain to shake up the nation's cultural and economic landscapes. But now there's also a showdown involving Donald Trump and America's constitutional bedrock, auguring a truly tectonic term.

  5. January 01, 2024

    Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Cases To Watch In 2024

    The first U.S. Supreme Court case to utilize new guidelines the justices crafted for Second Amendment rights cases and the fate of a Florida jury's $31 million verdict in a dram shop case are among the cases injury and malpractice attorneys will be following in 2024.

  6. January 01, 2024

    Appellate Outlook: Circuit Splits & Hot Topics To Track In 2024

    The 2024 appellate almanac is looking lively after eye-popping opinions and arguments in 2023's homestretch. As the new year begins, several circuit splits seem more serious, ideological imbalances are in the spotlight, and luminaries of the U.S. Supreme Court bar are locked in a burgeoning battle over alleged corporate complicity in terrorism.

  7. November 08, 2023

    Activists Optimistic Justices Will Uphold Abuser Gun Ban

    Gun and domestic violence advocates are optimistic the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold a federal statute prohibiting people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms, saying the justices during oral argument seemed to have a consensus about the regulation's importance and that the Fifth Circuit erred in striking it down.

  8. November 07, 2023

    Jackson Criticizes Court's 'White Protestant' Gun Rights Test

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson probed what she described as a "flaw" in the high court's recently adopted historical analog test for laws restricting gun ownership, suggesting during oral arguments Tuesday that the test has been applied to a whitewashed version of American gun regulation history.

  9. November 07, 2023

    Justices Skeptical Of Keeping Domestic Abusers Armed

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of a lower-court decision that a federal law prohibiting people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders from owning firearms violates the Second Amendment.

  10. November 06, 2023

    Law Profs Say Firearms Regs Can Clear Justices' Hurdle

    The U.S. Supreme Court isn't required by its recently adopted historical analog test to upend a federal statute prohibiting persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms if no similar law was on the books in the 1800s, two former clerks to conservative justices argue in a new paper, claiming the test's flexibility has been overlooked.