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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Sigale Challenges Injustices of Concealed Carry Application Process
Civil Rights, Gun Law May 06, 2019
The Law Firm of David G. Sigale, P.C. is co-counsel in the cause of Michael White, who has for years attempted to obtain an Illinois concealed carry license. His case has repeatedly been referred to the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board, where the false presumptions about long-ago alleged occurrences, and the lack of a hearing[…]
The Law Firm of David G. Sigale, P.C. has recently obtained a ruling that the Village of Deerfield exceeded its authority when it enacted an assault weapon ban (AWB) and large capacity magazine (LCM) ban. In Easterday v. Village of Deerfield, a Judge in the Lake County Circuit Court held the ordinances to be unenforceable[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Sigale Files Lawsuit in Missouri to Protect Foster Parents’ Second Amendment Rights
Civil Rights, Gun Law Jan 21, 2019
The Law Firm of David G. Sigale has filed suit in federal Court in the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City to overturn restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of foster parents (Attaway et al v. Corsi). The challenged restrictions prohibit the basic right to armed self-defense of a foster family, whether parents, natural[…]
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[…]
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[…]
On June 26, 2008, ten years ago, two things happened that dramatically altered the landscape of Second Amendment law. The first was the Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, holding that individuals had a right under the Second Amendment to armed self-defense, and that handgun bans (such as the Washington D.C. ban[…]