PA Bill Number: HB1472
Title: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contributions ...
Description: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contrib ...
Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024
Legal News
Second Circuit To Hear Oral Arguments On Gun Lawsuit :: 12/09/2014
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in the case of Shew vs. Malloy, a legal challenge to the key provisions of Connecticut's post-Newtown gun control legislation.
Challenging California's Absurd Ban on Signs in Gun Store Windows :: 12/01/2014
In a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case involving a movie-theater owner convicted of an Ohio law banning the showing of obscene movies, Justice Potter Stewart famously said he could not "intelligibly" define obscenity, "but I know it when I see it." People still use that line to showcase the imprecision and irrationality of many laws. How do we convict someone of something so hard to define? We often know when we see other absurdities, also, including an archaic statute now subject of a gun-related lawsuit filed this month in federal court. California Penal Code 26820 bans gun stores from displaying signs — visible from outside the premises — picturing handguns. They aren't allowed to display words-only signs that advertise the sales of handguns, either.
Judge: No more delay to enforce gun ruling :: 12/01/2014
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request by the California attorney general to further delay his order overturning the 10-day waiting period for gun owners who want to buy more firearms.
Kamala Harris's Conveniently Selective Arguments in Peruta :: 12/01/2014
Reader Mark N. writes: California Attorney General Kamala Harris has moved for an en banc reconsideration/rehearing of the denial of her motion to intervene in the Peruta case (the petition may be found here). The guts of it run about seven pages.
Homeless Woman's Stun Gun Spurs 2nd Amendment Case :: 11/30/2014
Jaime Caetano was beaten so badly by her ex-boyfriend that she ended up in the hospital. So when a friend offered her a stun gun to protect herself, she took it.
Calif. judge won't continue to delay gun decision :: 11/29/2014
FRESNO, Calif. - A federal judge has rejected a request by the California attorney general to further delay his order overturning the 10-day waiting period for gun owners who want to buy more firearms.
Is concealed carry a privilege or a right? :: 11/28/2014
California files appeal to court's latest pro-gun-rights decision
CHARLESTON - Attorney General Patrick Morrisey continues the fight for firearm rights in the U.S. Court of Appeals. :: 11/25/2014
On Tuesday the [South Carolina] AG’s office announced that Morrisey led a bipartisan coalition of 21 state attorneys general in an amicus, or friend of the court, brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to declare unconstitutional a Maryland law that forbids the possession, sale, transfer or receipt of certain firearms.
Showdown over concealed gun law as D.C. inches closer to contempt ruling :: 11/25/2014
The D.C. Council plans, with a few modifications, to make permanent the same concealed carry regulations lawmakers passed on a temporary basis — despite the fact a federal judge is considering whether to hold the city in contempt over the law.
GOA Aims to Torpedo the Maryland "Assault Weapons" Law :: 11/24/2014
“[The District Court] brazenly has ruled that Maryland may ‘infringe’ a right that the Constitution plainly states ‘shall not be infringed.’ Such a ruling cannot stand.” -- from GOA’s brief in Kolbe v. O’Malley
Will DC be held in contempt for gun carry law? :: 11/22/2014
All Americans can now apply to carry a gun in the nation's capital, but few will be granted a permit. That's why those who sued the city over the total ban on carry rights were back in a federal district court on Thursday to ask Judge Frederick Scullin to intervene.
Federal Judge Rules Against California's Bid to Delay End of Gun Waiting Periods for Some :: 11/21/2014
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Nov. 20, 2014 /NEWS.GNOM.ES/ — California’s laws requiring gun purchasers to wait at least ten days before taking possession of their lawfully-acquired firearms are one step closer to being history, reports The Calguns Foundation, a gun rights group headquartered in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville.
PA Governments File Lawsuit to Avoid Accountability on Gun Laws :: 11/20/2014
Arizona - -(Ammoland.com)- In Pennsylvania, second amendment advocates have been fighting for years to reform Pennsylvania preemption law.
9th Circuit Hears Arguments on Ammo Law :: 11/18/2014
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Gun owners fighting a Silicon Valley suburb's ban on high-capacity ammo magazines told the 9th Circuit Monday that they are being deprived of their rights to protect themselves.
California Town's Unusual Gun Law to Get Federal Appeals Court Ruling :: 11/18/2014
On Monday, the long-running debate over gun laws is moving to center stage, out in San Francisco.
Attorney General joins fight against Maryland's gun restrictions :: 11/17/2014
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has joined 20 other state attorneys general in filing a brief opposing Maryland laws restricting Second Amendment gun rights.
Gun rights showdown over Sunnyvale law reaches appeals court :: 11/17/2014
The gun rights lobby is about to take aim again at a Sunnyvale law banning possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines, the latest standoff proliferating in courts around the country over the boundaries of the constitutional right to bear arms.
Second lawsuit filed challenging federal ban on new machine guns :: 11/17/2014
A complaint for declarative and injunctive relief was filed Friday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiff Ryan S. Watson, acting individually and as trustee of the Watson Family Gun Trust, is suing Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director B. Todd Jones in their official capacities for administering, executing and enforcing “statutory and regulatory provisions [that] generally act as an unlawful de facto ban on the transfer or possession of a machine gun manufactured after May 19, 1986.”
Texas A&M Law School Professor Says Repeal the Second Amendment at Recent Event :: 11/16/2014
A Texas A&M University Law Professor, Mary Margaret Penrose, said at a recent event that she essentially supports repealing the Second Amendment and making guns a state’s rights issue.
Two different straw buyers face hefty sentences under new [PA] law :: 11/15/2014
In Pennsylvania this week two women found themselves looking at five years or more in jail following convictions for making illegal straw purchases of guns for people not eligible to possess them.
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