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Defending The Second Amendment
Posted on Sep 01, 2009
Posted 6/20/2008 Attorney Michael F. Hupy, Dan Small, host of Outdoor Wisconsin on Milwaukee Public Television and Attorney Robert A. Levy at the Federalist Society Luncheon on April 22, 2008. The picture appeared on page 14 of the June 2008, issue of the Federalist Paper, the magazine of the Federalist Society.
On April 22, 2008, Attorney Robert A. Levy spoke at a Federalist Society Luncheon at the Milwaukee Athletic Club. Levy is one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller, which challenged the Washington D.C. ban on all hand guns. Levy explained the legal issues in the case and how the lawyers were able to select law abiding citizens of Washington D.C. to make the challenge rather than having the case presented to the court representing someone illegally using a gun.
Hupy and Abraham, S.C., helped the cause by bringing several guests including Dan Small, host of the longest running public television show in Wisconsin, Outdoor Wisconsin, Jim Fendry, head of the Wisconsin Pro Gun Movement and other Second Amendment advocates to the event.
Robert A. Levy and William Mellor recently wrote a book entitled “The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom”. It is available in bookstores nationwide, at 800-767-1241 or at http://cato.org/
UPDATE: July 2, 2008
On Thursday, June 26th the US Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller announced its 5-4 ruling overturning Washington, D.C.'s ban on handgun ownership. The Court held that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to own a gun for self-defense. To read an article about the ruling visit: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/SCOTUS/story?id=5037600&page=1
Attorney Robert Levy was lead counsel in the District of Columbia v. Heller US Supreme Court case. Levy went to law school at the age of fifty and this is the only case he has ever handled. On June 29th, CBS News Sunday Morning did a feature story about Levy. Here is a link to the story http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/29/sunday/main4217235.shtml?source=search_story
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed five more lawsuits challenging local gun bans in San Francisco, Chicago, and three Chicago suburbs, Evanston, Morton Grove, and Oak Park. The San Francisco lawsuit challenges a local ordinance and lease provision that prohibits the possession of guns by residents of public housing. The Chicago lawsuits challenge a handgun ban very similar to the one struck down in Washington D.C. More information can be found at www.NRAILA.org
