PA Bill Number: HB554
Title: Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Social Work Licensure Compact; and providing for the form of the compact.
Description: An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Social Work Licensure Compact; and providing for the form of the compact.
Last Action: Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE
Last Action Date: Jun 6, 2025
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Vacates Duncan v. Becerra High Capacity Magazine Ruling, Will Rehear the Case :: 02/26/2021
Last summer a three-judge panel of the ninth circuit ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that California’s “high capacity” magazine ban was unconstitutional. As expected, California’s Attorney General immediately appealed the ruling in the case, Duncan v. Becerra, because as the AG said that the time . . .
“Our commonsense gun safety measures here in California have a track record of success in doing what they were meant to do — keep our communities safe,” said Attorney General Becerra. “We disagree with the Court’s initial decision and will continue to use every tool we have to defend the constitutionality of our laws.”
This afternoon, the Ninth’s chief judge, Sidney Thomas has issued a ruling quashing the three-judge panel’s ruling. The case will now be reheard en banc by an 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit.
You can read the brief order here.
“We’re excited to have another opportunity to defend what Californians already know – law-abiding citizens’ ability to purchase, possess, and use standard-capacity magazines in California is a fundamental civil right and shall not be infringed.” –Chuck Michel,
