Legal Opinion
Fesjian v. Jefferson
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 19, 1979No. 13183, 13184 and 13186PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEBEKER, Associate Judge:
These consolidated petitions from a refusal by respondent to register certain firearms present a number of arguments. The arguments challenge the legality of a discrimination between owners of different weapons, the validity of a legislative definition of a machine gun, and the constitutionality of the registration statute which petitioners assert constitutes a prohibited Fifth Amendment “taking.” Petitioners also claim that their firearms were automatically registered upon expiration of the statutory time period given the police chief to respond to applications for…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- United States v. National Dairy Products Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Mister Ralpho v. J. Raymond Bell, Chairman, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
- John Roy Harper, II v. Edward H. Levi, Attorney General of the United States, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Kuhn v. CisselDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1979
- Quilici v. Village of Morton GroveDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1981
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