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Sigale wins another battle in Illinois. The Illinois Second District Appellate Court dismissed an appeal by the Village of Deerfield over its semi-automatic rifle and large capacity magazine ban.  The Court agreed with the Law Firm of David G. Sigale that the Court lacked jurisdiction, because the status of the case was not appropriate for[…]

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Rappers like Chance the Rapper, Killer Mike, Fat Joe and Luther Campbell (2 Live Crew) have teamed with law school professors, and a university professor on the subject of hip hop culture, to submit an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking certiorari in Knox v. Pennsylvania.  In Knox, the Petitioner raps under the[…]

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David Sigale was pleased to speak at the First Amendment Lawyers Association’s winter conference in Tampa, Florida. The topic was First Amendment Issues in Second Amendment Cases.  Mr. Sigale is pleased to be a member of an organization so devoted to protecting the free speech and expression rights for all. If you have a First[…]

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Eugene Volokh at reason.com wrote an informative article about a Pennsylvania man with a permanent firearm possession ban after he was convicted of possessing and using a falsified Pennsylvania Department of Transportation document in 1998 – specifically, he falsified a vehicle window-tinting permit.  Technically a misdemeanor, the way the potential sentencing worked in Pennsylvania labeled[…]

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A non-traditional test of the Fourth Amendment has been decided in the long-running dispute about Naperville, Illinois smart meters.  The case is Naperville Smart Meter Awareness v. City of Naperville, which was recently ruled upon in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  Around 2009, the City of Naperville received a federal grant to update its[…]

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The Law Firm of David G. Sigale, PC has filed a lawsuit against the Hononegah High School District in Rockton, Illinois, and certain of its officials, on behalf of Madison Oster, a student at the high school. During the well-publicized school walkouts last March to protest school gun violence, Madison wished to express a different[…]

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