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[…]
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[…]
The Illinois Appellate Court just offered a good reminder of what connection a defendant must have to Illinois in order to meet the requirement of personal jurisdiction to sue in an Illinois Court. This is known as the “minimum contacts” rule which goes back to the oft-cited case of International Shoe Co. v. State of[…]
Sigale Wins Preservation of Second Amendment Rights in Mariana Islands with Ninth Circuit
Uncategorized Jul 11, 2018
On July 9, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the attempt by the Tanapag Middle School Parent Student Association to overturn the 2016 win of summary judgment granted to the Firm’s clients against the government of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. The 2016 judgment struck down the CNMI’s ban on home handgun possession,[…]
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[…]
Fourth Amendment Applies to Property Outside the Home, Although Limits Still Debatable
Civil Rights Jun 04, 2018
In a very recent decision, the Supreme Court has fortified the individual’s Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable (without a warrant) police searches and seizures. In Collins v. Virginia, the police suspected (due to the defendant’s own Facebook posts, of course) a stolen motorcycle was in the defendant’s driveway under a tarp. The officer went onto[…]