Legal Opinion

Brandon Cade v. United States of America

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided November 18, 2025No. 1:24-cv-02804Unknown

1Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION BRANDON CADE, ) ) Petitioner. ) Case No. 24-cv-2804 ) v. ) Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Respondent, ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Petitioner, Brandon Cade, pled guilty to illegal possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) on June 1, 2022. About three weeks later, the U.S. Supreme Court upended the previously established frameworks for evaluating whether a criminal law violates the Second Amendment when it announced its opinion in New York Rifle & Pistol Ass’n…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Estelle v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. District of Columbia v. HellerSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
  3. Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  4. New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. BruenSupreme Court of the United States · 2022
  5. Byron Blake v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2013

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