Heller v. Bedford Central School District’s Empirical Analysis
2016
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Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Illinois v. Gates · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · District of Columbia v. Heller
Most-quoted passages
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“Restrictions on the purchase of guns by the mentally ill are presumptively lawful. Heller's Second Amendment claim was properly dismissed because the restriction on gun purchases by individuals committed to a mental institution is presumptively lawful, and because Heller has not stated a plausible claim that he was improperly committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Montgomery v. Cuomo
How this case has been treated — in progress
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