Legal Opinion
Folajtar v. Barr
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 22, 2019No. 5:18-cv-02717PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., United States District Judge
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff was convicted of filing a false tax return over seven years ago.
*619Now, as a convicted felon, she is prohibited from owning firearms by federal law. A claim that the federal law is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment as applied to her has been brought.2 Defendants move to dismiss the complaint in its entirety under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). For the reasons set forth below, the motion to dismiss is granted.
II. BACKGROUND3
In 2011 Lisa Folajtar pled guilty in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to…
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