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[…]
For the sixth time, David G. Sigale has been selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list, to which only 5% of Illinois attorneys are named each year. Sigale appreciates the honor, and the Firm looks forward to serving its clients with dedication and zeal in 2019 and beyond. The Law Firm of David G. Sigale, P.C. was[…]
Free speech on college campuses is a hotbed issue. Controversial speakers are uninvited from delivering speeches after there are objections from a loud (and sometimes violent) opposing segment of the student body. Phrases such as “trigger warning” and “safe space” are now commonplace among college students. While shielding our future leaders from speech that may[…]
The constitutional principle of incorporation is when one of the freedoms in the Bill of Rights is enforced against state and local governments. This was the issue regarding the Second Amendment in McDonald v City of Chicago, and since the first such case in Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. City of Chicago, 166[…]
I was privileged to participate in a video for Guns.com, which details Rhonda Ezell and the Ezell v. Chicago firing range lawsuit, but also Rhonda’s continued efforts to promote Second Amendment rights for law-abiding Chicago residents. In the wake of the horrible tragedies committed by horrible people, it is important to take note of the[…]
An excellent article in The Atlantic, brought to my attention through www.scotusblog.com, discusses an ongoing lawsuit over climate change, and the government’s [lack of] policies towards it, that may highlight an early effect of the replacement on the Supreme Court from Justice Kennedy to Justice Kavanaugh. There is a general rule that those with non-individual[…]
David G. Sigale was pleased and humbled to win the Second Amendment Foundation’s Defender of the Constitution award at their 2018 Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) for his legal advocacy on behalf of Second Amendment and constitutional rights. Sigale also was a speaker at the GRPC about the multiple cases the Firm handles on behalf[…]
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[…]