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Liberty1
07-01-2008, 09:52 PM
Any reading of the tea leaves to be done here regarding licensing?

http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/07/cross_petition.php

Cross petition for cert. in Parker/Heller denied
POSTED BY DAVID HARDY · 1 JULY 2008 03:52 PM
Orders here. This was the cross-petition by the Shelly Parker and the others whom the DC Circuit held had no standing to sue, under the Circuit's quite narrow case law (which is applicable to gun cases only; any other challenge is judged with a very broad test of standing). The Circuit held that one plaintiff, Dick Heller, had standing since he had applied for a pistol permit and been turned down.

hoffmang
07-01-2008, 11:27 PM
There isn't much to construe from that. The hope had been that the Parker appeal would have been "GVR" to the district court, but it appears that SCOTUS feels that Heller is enough to overrule the silly standing doctrine in D.C.

-Gene