PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
Legal News
Behind the 9th Circuit bench: The judges ruling on concealed guns :: 06/25/2015
The future of concealed carry gun permits in California is … on hold.
Federal court takes up Second Amendment case :: 06/25/2015
Gun rights activists are challenging whether Americans living abroad can purchase firearms in a case that could have major implications for the Second Amendment.
Judge dismisses road-rage shooting indictment :: 06/25/2015
A Marin County Superior Court judge dismissed an indictment last week against a Corte Madera physician in last year’s road rage shooting case.
PA Commonwealth Court declares state gun law (Preemption Law Changes) unconstitutional :: 06/25/2015
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Thursday declared unconstitutional a 2014 law that allowed private citizens and gun rights groups to sue local communities for enacting their own gun laws.
Surveillance Camera Catches Undercover Police Informant Planting Crack Cocaine :: 06/24/2015
“Who knows how many potential customers I lost” all because of a police information planting “evidence” – all because “the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office — tried to ruin my life” a New York business owner asked.
Why the SCOTUS Raisin Case May Be Good News for Gun Owners :: 06/24/2015
Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down a major decision in Horne v. Department of Agriculture, in which it struck down a New Deal-era program that governed the production of raisins. In short, the program required raisin growers to give a percentage of their crop to the federal government (without payment), for the ostensible purpose of limiting the supply of raisins on the market and thus keeping raisin prices at a certain level.
Brady Center Ordered to Pay FFLs' $200,000+ Attorney's Fees :: 06/23/2015
NEWTOWN, Conn –-(Ammoland.com)- “Those who ignite a fire should be responsible for the cost of suppressing it before it becomes a conflagration.”
Court denies New Jersey man's gun permits due to wife's record :: 06/22/2015
A state appellate court has ruled that a southern New Jersey man cannot buy guns because his wife is a convicted felon who's been accused of domestic violence.
Judge's ruling threatens upheaval of Puerto Rico gun laws :: 06/22/2015
A local court in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico this month issued a stern ruling that could end some of the strongest gun laws in the country.
New Florida Carry Lawsuit to Defend Right to Bear Arms :: 06/20/2015
One of our members was illegally disarmed, harassed, detained, searched, and trespassed by Tampa Police at a Florida Carry Event.
Lawyer says self-defense is sufficient reason to carry concealed guns :: 06/18/2015
The latest chapter in the battle pitting gun owners who want to carry their weapons in public against California sheriffs who rarely grant such requests played out Tuesday in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. But the exchange was more humdrum than heated and, at the end of the oral arguments, more questions than answers remained. The future of concealed carry permits in California is now in the hands of the 11 judges, who are expected to reach a final decision in the coming months.
Alaska gun shop cleared in murder trial, feds revoke its license :: 06/17/2015
A jury this week found an Alaska gun dealer not liable for selling the gun used in a shooting death almost nine years ago.
Watch retrial challenge to California's 'good cause' requirement (VIDEO) :: 06/17/2015
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard the retrial of Peruta v. San Diego and Richards v. Yolo County, two cases in which the same court found last year that local sheriffs in California practiced gun permit licensing schemes that were unconstitutional.
Gun Control Bullying in California :: 06/16/2015
"They singled me out to send a message to others in the gun community."
D.C. can require gun applicants to provide a 'good reason' for now :: 06/15/2015
A federal appeals court has ordered a stay of a judge’s ruling in a challenge to the District’s gun laws.
The right to bear arms in public: How courts have ruled so far? :: 06/15/2015
Is a person’s fear of being attacked on the street a good enough reason to allow him or her to carry a gun in public?
8th Circ. upholds enforcement of Section 327.13 (explosives, firearms, other weapons and fireworks) :: 06/13/2015
In the case of GeorgiaCarry.Org, Inc., et al., v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, decided June 9, 2015, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the lower court to deny a request for a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the Corps' regulation that prohibits loaded firearms and ammunition form federal property managed by the Corps. The rule is located at 36 C.F.R. § 327.13.
Can cops confront open-carry advocates? Courts say yes :: 06/11/2015
When a man armed with a loaded assault pistol strapped to his leg, dressed in camouflage, and singing to himself, began walking in front of a Grand Rapids church one snowy Sunday morning in March 2014, an alarmed churchgoer called 911. When police arrived, they took the man's gun, and briefly handcuffed him while they questioned him.
Georgia gun owners' rights not destroyed by Corps' ban, court rules :: 06/11/2015
Gun owners Second Amendment rights are not “completely destroyed” by a ban on loaded firearms and ammunition at recreation areas managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
The Supreme Court Down the Stretch :: 06/11/2015
American Pharoah’s stretch run in the Belmont Stakes was a beauty to behold. The Supreme Court’s stretch run in the closing weeks of its term? Not so much.
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