Copeland v. Vance

Katzmann, Chief Judge:

*107Plaintiffs-appellants John Copeland, Pedro Perez, and Native Leather, Ltd. (collectively, "plaintiffs") appeal from a judgment against them following a bench trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Forrest, J .). Plaintiffs claim that New York's ban on gravity knives is void for vagueness under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as applied to "[k]nives that are designed to resist opening from their folded and closed position," or common folding knives. J. App'x 51. New York law defines a gravity knife as a knife…