Posted on 01/30/2009 9:53:18 AM PST by marktwain
Today we filed our opening brief in the Court of Appeals. The basic arguments may be familiar to those who have followed the proceedings below, but we had somewhat more room to work with at this stage, not to mention the decision below required a response.
All three remaining Chicago-area cases, ours and the two brought by the NRA against Chicago and Oak Park, have been consolidated on appeal. That means that they will be heard and decided together by the same panel, and the parties on both sides are to minimize the degree of overlapping arguments among them. We’ll post the other briefs on this website (the NRA’s, the Cities’, and amicis’) as they come in.
In a week, we expect the amici supporting us to file their briefs. Chicago and Oak Park turn in their efforts in thirty days, followed by their amici in a week. We then get a reply two weeks later. The case will most likely be argued, and perhaps even decided by the Court of Appeals, sometime this year.
Stay tuned…
It may be possible to get incorporation without going to SCOTUS. Keep your fingers crossed. Send $ to these legal funds.
I haven't read it yet.
Thanks. I’ll look at it tomorrow.
This could get interesting. It's a really long brief, so I don't know if I'll ever get time to clean it up properly, but at least it's better than a damned PDF file.
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