Legal Opinion
Gould v. O'Leary
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 5, 2017No. Civil Action No. 16–10181–FDSPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
F. Dennis Saylor IV, United States District Judge
This is a federal constitutional challenge to the firearm licensing policies of the Town of Brookline and the City of Boston. Plaintiffs Michael Gould, Christopher Hart, Danny Weng, Sarah Zesch, John Stanton, and Commonwealth Second Amendment, Inc. have brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, contending that policies of the Brookline and Boston Police Departments that restrict the ability of applicants to obtain licenses to carry firearms violate the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. The named defendants are Daniel O'Leary, the chief of the…
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