Law-abiding residents of Hawaii want to own folding pocket-knives with split handles, also sometimes known as butterfly knives. But this type of knife is banned in Hawaii. This prohibition violates the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms, since the word “arms” applies to knives and other bladed weapons.
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The "Life Sentence" He Didn't Deserve
Ken Flick’s decades-old conviction—for importing and selling counterfeit cassette tapes in 1987—should not result in a lifetime ban from gun ownership.
Folajtar v. Rosen
America's Unforgiven Face Lifelong Gun Ban
Case Summary Lisa Folajtar is being denied her Second Amendment protected right to keep and bear arms because of a 10-year-old conviction. In 2011, Folajtar pleaded guilting to willfully making false statements on her tax returns—a federal felony punishable by up to three years’ imprisonment. Folajtar was sentenced to three months of home confinement, three…
Center for Biological Diversity v. US Forest Service
Family Battles Property Rights Roadblocks
Case Summary Chuck Roady and his family had been working for nearly 20 years to secure the right to reliably access their private parcel of land within a national forest near the U.S.-Canadian border. Then green extremists threw a monkey-wrench into everything using federally-protected grizzly bears as a pretext. Case History The owner of an “inholding” –…
Holloway v. Rosen
An Arbitrary Denial of Gun Rights
The federal government is denying an upstanding citizen his constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.
California v. ATF
Hand-Crafters in the Crosshairs
Americans have the right to self-manufacture those arms that they deem necessary to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property. But the state of California and gun control activists from the west coast want to end that practice for the entirety of the United States.
Syracuse v. ATF
Self-Sufficiency Under Siege
Americans have the right to self-manufacture those arms that they deem necessary to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property. But a handful of progressive cities and gun control activists want to end that practice.
Teter v. Connors
To Keep and Bear (All Types of) Arms
Law-abiding residents of Hawaii want to own folding pocket-knives with split handles, also sometimes known as butterfly knives. But this type of knife is banned in Hawaii. This prohibition violates the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms, since the word “arms” applies to knives and other bladed weapons.
Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt
Ranchers Bent But Not Broken
Embattled Arizona ranching families are making their final stand against the radical environmentalists who are determined to run them off the land. Well-heeled environmentalist groups are chipping away at the right of ranchers to exist—one lawsuit at a time.
Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt
Saving The Last Cattle Drive
American ranchers have a right to make a living off the land, as they have for generations, on Wyoming’s Upper Green River Drift. Under attack from environmental extremists, these ranchers ride with the knowledge that their next cattle drive could be their last.
Robert Aragon, et al. v. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, et al.
New Mexico’s Unconstitutional Gun Store Closures
Even in an emergency, constitutionally protected rights must be defended. New Mexico’s governor shut down the state’s firearms retailers as part of her emergency shut down orders designed to stop the spread of COVID 19. But her order illegally deprives citizens of their Second Amendment protected rights. MSLF filed a lawsuit, on behalf of multiple individuals, firearm retailers, and a litany of Second Amendment advocacy organization, to vindicate those rights.
Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Junk Science Threatens Southwestern Ranchers
Tom Paterson’s Spur Ranch Cattle Company is an excellent steward of public grazing lands in New Mexico. But he and dozens of other ranchers are at risk of being put out of business by radical environmentalists and their junk science.
Pena v. Horan
California’s De Facto Handgun Ban is Unconstitutional
California has imposed many unconstitutional requirements upon handguns to limit purchases. By requiring non-standard or non-existent features, the state has effectively created a ban on handguns. As a result, California residents are being unfairly denied their Second Amendment protected rights.
Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
A Fight for True Equality at Harvard
Mountain States Legal Foundation filed an amicus curiae brief Feb. 25, 2020, supporting Students for Fair Admissions’ lawsuit because Harvard’s admissions system is unconstitutional. Equality under the law should be protected.
Monex Deposit Company, et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Changing The Rules Is Risky Business for the Economy
The CFTC changed the rules regarding Monex Deposit Company’s business, after years of approving of their business model. Sudden rule changes and retroactive enforcement like this infringe on constitutional due process protections. They also put citizens, businesses and the economy at risk.
Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt
Environmentalist Lawyers' Big Power Grab
America’s ranching families raise the livestock that feeds and clothes this country. But environmentalist lawyers are plotting to put them out of business and seize control of the western lands where cattle and sheep have freely roamed for a hundred years.
John and Martha Corrigan, et al. v. Bernhardt
Cattlemen Fight to Survive in Heart of Cowboy Country
Parents should have the right to pass down to their children what they’ve worked so hard for all their lives. But when the Hanleys decided to pass their family ranch on to their children, they learned the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) illegally cancelled their grazing rights.
WildEarth Guardians v. U.S. Forest Service
Radical Environmentalists' War on Sheep
Radical environmentalists want to put sheep ranchers out of business in Colorado. The outcome of this case could determine the future of the sheep industry throughout the Southern Rockies.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. City of New York
New York's Second Amendment Showdown
New York City officials act as if they believe the Second Amendment does not apply to them. They made it illegal to transport a licensed, locked, and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside of city limits. This regulation must be overturned.
Rayco, LLC v. Bernhardt
Fighting to Save the Family Legacy
Emerson and Fay Ray were a young couple, recently married, when they first came to California. It was the height of the Great Depression and Emerson had heard he might be able to get a job in California pouring concrete. Now the government is threatening to destroy the legacy they built for their family.
Love Terminal Partners, L.P. v. United States
Texas Property Owners Left Empty Handed
The Constitution mandates that private property cannot be taken without just compensation. In this case the government and well-connected businesses colluded to take what didn’t belong to them, and a small group of Texas property owners were left empty-handed.
Hererra v. Wyoming
Farmers and Ranchers Are the Backbone of This Country
Farmers and ranchers lease federally managed land to raise their flocks and herds, and ultimately to feed millions of Americans. They pay large sums of money to lease those grazing lands. Some American Indian tribe members are claiming the right to hunt on the land the government leases to farmers and ranchers in the state of Wyoming, even though it’s a clear violation of their tribal treaty with the United States.
Kisor v. Wilkie
Honoring Our Commitment to Those Who Served
Federal agencies have been growing in size and influence for decades. This case represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to turn back the tide. The case centers on a Vietnam War veteran, Mr. James L. Kisor, and his 37-year struggle to obtain veteran’s medical benefits. But what is at stake is much more than one man’s benefits—it is about reining in the out-of-control power of unelected, big-government bureaucrats.
Wilderness Society v. Trump
Even Presidents Aren't Above the Law
President Clinton and President Obama created two illegal national monuments in rural Utah, causing serious economic harm to the hard-working westerners who live in the area. President Trump reversed the land grab but was sued for his efforts to restore the rule of law.
American Stewards of Liberty v. U.S. Department of the Interior
Caught in the Government's Web
In 1988, the FWS listed as endangered the Bee Creek Cave Harvestman, a cave-dwelling spider found only in subterranean limestone caves in Travis and Williamson Counties, Texas. When the federal government bars use of private property to protect species that are found only in a local area and not throughout the country, it violates the Constitution’s Commerce Clause.
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