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Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. v. Ronnell Higgins, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Transportation, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 23-1344 · judgment August 22, 2025
Before the decision, about 1.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a Second Circuit decision below, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Consolidated with 25-238. Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes, including the most popular rifle in the country, the AR-15.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
David H. Thompson
Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
For respondent
Michael Kenneth Skold
State of CT Office of the Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 17 conferences
Amicus briefs
2 merits
(2 supporting pet./neither)
Related
Vide, 25-238
Proceedings
- Sep 03 2026Amicus brief of National Association For Gun Rights, Inc. And Texas Gun Rights, Inc. submitted.
- Aug 27 2026Amicus brief of G. Antaeus B. Edelsohn submitted.
- Jun 30 2026Petition GRANTED as to the question presented by the petition in No. 25-238. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 25-238 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
- Jun 30 2026Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 25-238. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 25-238. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.”
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- Jan 23 2026Reply of petitioners Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Jan 12 2026Brief of respondents James Rovella, et al. in opposition filed.
- Dec 02 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 12, 2026. See Rule 30.1.
- Dec 01 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 12, 2025 to January 11, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Nov 07 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 12, 2025)