This past week, the Law Firm of David G. Sigale, P.C. co-presented the case of Evans v. Illinois State Police to the Illinois Supreme Court. The case seeks to reverse an Appellate Court decision holding that the FOID Card Act cannot be used to restore the firearm rights of felons. The Firm is arguing this is an[…]
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The State of Illinois requires anyone who wishes to carry a concealed firearm for self-defense in public to possess a concealed carry license (CCL), which requires training, undergoing background checks, and paying the required fees. By law, the CCL applications are to be processed within 120 days, or 90 days if the applicant pays an[…]
Sigale Files Lawsuit For Federal Firearm Rights Restoration
Civil Rights, Gun Law, Uncategorized Jan 28, 2021
In 2018, in Kanter v. Barr, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a person convicted of a federal felony, no matter how long ago and no matter how non-violent the nature of the offense, could never have their Second Amendment rights restored. The Court effectively ruled: once a felon, always a felon. This contradicts[…]
David G. Sigale files lawsuit stating FOID delays unconstitutional.
Ten years ago today, June 28, 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in McDonald v. City of Chicago that the individual right of self-defense, enshrined in the Second Amendment, applies equally to local and state governments. From there, the federal appeals Court in Chicago ruled that range training is protected (Ezell v. City of Chicago), as[…]
This blog is long. I hope you will read to the end. Racism is evil in all its forms, and not just the outright racism that leads to “under color of law” killings such as that of George Floyd, or the racial violence that caused the death of Ahmaud Arbery. It is also the sometimes[…]
The Law Office of David G. Sigale and the Illinois State Rifle Association’s office, have been receiving calls for months regarding the Illinois State Police’s backlog of FOID and concealed carry license renewals. People who timely filed their renewal applications waited patiently, long after the deadline for processing, only to see they now have expired[…]
On April 2, 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its Opinion in the FOID card case State of Illinois v. Vivian Brown, where the trial court declared the FOID card law unconstitutional for those wishing to possess a firearm in their homes for self-defense, and the State appealed directly to the State Supreme Court. In the end, the[…]
First and foremost: I hope everyone is keeping safe and healthy in this unprecedented and extraordinary time of COVID-19, one that is challenging all of us, and I join in all the thank-yous to the medical personnel and first responders who are working so heroically to their own detriment for everyone else’s benefit. It is[…]
David Sigale was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune’s Katherine Douglas regarding Dione Weaver, who was sitting in his parked car on a Chicago street one late night when he saw a man walking from car to car shining a flashlight inside them. Weaver called 911, said he was worried about the person, and that Weaver[…]