Legal Opinion

Medina v. Lynch

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided September 6, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2016-1718Published

1Opinion of the Court

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JORGE L. MEDINA, Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 16-cv-01718 (CRC) JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS, III, 1 in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States, Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Due to a decades-old felony conviction for making a false statement on a bank loan application, Plaintiff Jorge Medina, a Los Angeles area small business owner, is barred by federal law from ever possessing a firearm. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Medina contends that this ban violates the Second Amendment as applied to him because he has been a…

2Cases cited40 opinions

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  2. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. TwomblySupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  3. Lujan v. Defenders of WildlifeSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  4. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  5. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983

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