CA AG Seeks En Banc Review Of 9th Circuit’s Denial Of Her Request To Meddle In Perua

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CA A.G. Seeks En Banc Review Of 9th Circuit’s Denial Of Her Request To Meddle In Peruta Case
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San Diego, CA –-(Ammoland.com)- California Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris filed a request for en banc review of the Ninth Circuit’s denial of her request to intervene in the NRA supported case of Peruta v. San Diego, which produced a landmark decision striking down as a violation of the Second Amendment San Diego County Sheriff William Gore’s policy of refusing to issue licenses to carry firearms in public unless an applicant could demonstrate special need for one.

The AG’s latest request to the court comes after the court denied the AG’s and several gun ban advocacy groups’ requests to join the case once they learned Sheriff Gore had decided not to appeal the case any further.  The anti-gun rights groups have also filed a similar request for en banc review of the Ninth Circuit’s denial of their requests to intervene in the case.

If AG Harris is successful in overturning the Court’s order and is allowed to intervene in the Peruta case, all Ninth Circuit Court judges will then vote on whether to re-hear the Peruta case itself before an 11 judge en banc panel. If they decide to do so, the en banc panel will either uphold the current decision supporting the Second Amendment, or overturn it. The court could, however, simply vote NOT to rehear the case en banc, thereby allowing the three-judge panel decision to stand.

It is unknown how long the court may take to rule on these current requests from the AG and the gun ban lobby. NRA attorneys have prepared and posted an explanation of the en banc review process online that describes the various potential permutations in the court’s review process. Whatever the Ninth Circuit might end up doing once it allowed the Attorney General into the case, either side would almost certainly petition a loss to the United States Supreme Court.

Even if the court denies Attorney General Harris’s latest request, pending requests for en banc review in similar cases that benefitted from the work done in the Peruta case could potentially imperil the Peruta ruling. Both the County of Yolo, California, in the case of Richards v. Yolo County, and the State of Hawaii, in the case of Baker v. Kealoha, have already petitioned for en banc review of the Ninth Circuit’s rulings in those cases, which essentially hold that they lose because of Peruta. If those petitions for en banc review are granted, the Peruta opinion will be in jeopardy of being overturned, just as if the Peruta opinion itself was being reviewed by the Court.

Stay tuned to www.CalGunLaws.com  for more up to the minute developments as this important case progresses.

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Eric

California Police can have firearms so called assault weapons, full auto , SBR’s and other NFA items , Average citizens cannot .California Law states specifically Article 1 sec7 b) A citizen or class of citizens may not be granted privileges or immunities not granted on the same terms to all citizens.
So all your so called firearm laws must be applied to police or removed entirely.