Legal Opinion
Tripodi v. Sessions
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 10, 2018No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 18-2482PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKearney, District Judge
Congress defines the seriousness of federal crimes. It retains the constitutional power to decide whether charged conduct is serious "enough" to be considered a felony. If found guilty of a federal felony, *460Congress long ago decided to bar federal felons from possessing firearms. Encouraged by recently successful challenges to this lifetime ban based on district courts' analysis of the seriousness of certain state crimes, a presently law-abiding businessman convicted of a federal criminal conspiracy felony over thirteen years ago now asks us to declare Congress' ban on his firearm possession…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Sandra Connelly v. Lane Construction CorpCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2016
- District of Columbia v. HellerSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- McDonald v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Miller v. SessionsDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2019
- Folajtar v. BarrDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2019