Legal Opinion
Hightower v. City of Boston
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 29, 2011No. Civil Action 08-11955-DJCPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
CASPER, District Judge.
I. Introduction
Plaintiff Stacey Hightower (“Hightower”) has brought this suit alleging that the Massachusetts statutory scheme for determining whether to issue a license to carry a firearm, Mass. Gen. L. c. 140, § 131, both on its face and as applied by Defendants, the City of Boston and Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis (“BPD Commissioner”) (collectively, “Municipal Defendants”), violates her rights under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts intervened to defend the…
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