In NRA v. Vullo, released May 30, 2024, a 9-0 Supreme Court has ruled that the NRA plausibly alleged that a New York official violated the First Amendment by coercing regulated entities to terminate their business relationships with the NRA in order to punish or suppress gun-promotion advocacy, with which the official disagreed. The Opinion begins[…]
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Attorney David G. Sigale, in conjunction with attorneys for two other consolidated cases in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, has filed for a full-Court, or en banc, review of the Court’s recent 2-1 panel decision in Bevis v. City of Naperville, which upheld the State’s ban on many semi-automatic firearms and magazines. The Firm represents the[…]
David G. Sigale files lawsuit stating FOID delays unconstitutional.
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[…]
The Law Firm of David G. Sigale has filed a lawsuit on behalf of two individuals, the Illinois State Rifle Association, and the Second Amendment Foundation against the Illinois State Police and its officials over the lengthy delays of the ISP in responding to FOID appeals. The Plaintiffs in particular had their FOIDs revoked in[…]
New York City Trying to Moot 2nd Amendment Case at Supreme Court, But Case is Still Pending
Gun Law Aug 28, 2019
The first significant Second Amendment case in almost a decade is pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, the plaintiffs are challenging an NYC ordinance forbidding the transport of a home firearm, except to seven NYC-approved firing ranges. The plaintiffs argue that the[…]
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[…]