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District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles ...
Scalia dissented from the Court's decision to vacate a lower court's decision and remand for further consideration in light of the Court's decision in Jimenez v. Quarterman . Scalia objected that, as Jimenez was decided more than two months prior to the lower court's decision under review, there was no basis for treating Jimenez as an ...
Navajo Nation • Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act of 1950 • Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 • failure of Secretary of Interior to promptly approve tribal coal lease royalty rate increase Unanimous
Antonin Scalia’s disastrous ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller created a constitutional Frankenstein, historian writes. Replace Second Amendment with one that makes sense in the blood ...
94.1% 59.2% 87.3% 92.9% 67.6% 84.3% 62.0% 62.3% xx Roberts Stevens Notes on statistics: The percentage at the intersection of two justices is the frequency with which they agreed upon a judgment, irrespective of the specific opinions joined.
The 2007 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 1, 2007, and concluded September 30, 2008. This was the twenty-second term of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia's tenure on the Court.
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The statue "Authority of Law" by artist James Earle Fraser is seen outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., in 2010. Credit - Mark Wilson—Getty Images