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George K. Young, Jr. v. Hawaii, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 12-17808 · judgment March 24, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
On April 26, 2021, this Court granted review in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., v. Corlett, No. 20-843, 593 U.S. ___ (“NYSRPA”). As modified by the Court in its order granting certiorari, the issue presented in NYSRPA is “[w]hether the State’s denial of petitioners’ applications for concealed-carry licenses for selfdefense violated the Second Amendment.” This petition raises the same issue. Like the New York statute at issue in NYSRPA, Hawaii will not issue a permit to carry a firearm to an ordinary citizen for purposes of self-defense. Like the petitioners in NYSRPA, petitioner’s application for a carry permit (open or concealed) was denied because self-defense is categorically an insufficient reason. Indeed, in sustaining the denial of petitioner’s application, the en banc Ninth Circuit majority held that the Second Amendment does not apply outside the home at all, a holding in direct conflict with the holdings of the D.C., First and Seventh Circuits and inconsistent with the approaches followed by all other circuits to have reached the issue. The questions presented are:
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Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with the holdings of the First, Seventh and D.C. Circuits, that the Second Amendment does not apply outside the home at all.
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Whether the denial of petitioner’s application for a handgun carry license for selfdefense violated the Second Amendment.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Alan Alexander Beck
Law Offices of Alan Beck
For respondent
Neal Kumar Katyal
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Amicus briefs
6 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Aug 01 2022JUDGMENT ISSUED
- Jun 30 2022Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U. S. ___ (2022).
- Jun 29 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/29/2022.
- Aug 23 2021Reply of petitioner George K. Young, Jr. filed. (Distributed)
- Aug 11 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
- Jul 26 2021Brief of respondents Hawaii, et al. in opposition filed.
- Jun 24 2021Brief amici curiae of Firearms Policy Coalition and Firearms Policy Foundation filed.
- Jun 24 2021Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation Center to Keep and Bear Arms filed.
- Jun 24 2021Brief amici curiae of Louisiana, Arizona, Montana, and Eighteen Other States filed.
- Jun 24 2021Brief amicus curiae of Gun Owners of America, Inc., Gun Owners Foundation, Heller Foundation, Virginia Citizens Defense League, Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Restoring Liberty Action Committee filed.
- Jun 24 2021Brief amicus curiae of Hawaii Firearms Coalition filed.
- Jun 22 2021Brief amicus curiae of Hawaii Rifle Association filed.
- Jun 09 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including July 26, 2021.
- Jun 08 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 24, 2021 to July 26, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
- May 25 2021Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, George K. Young, Jr.
- May 11 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 24, 2021)