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“Hawaii Struggles To Revise Gun Laws After Supreme Court Decision; Honolulu is the only county in the state that hasn’t yet finalized new concealed-carry gun rules, leading to a backlog in permit applications”

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Hawaii Struggles To Revise Gun Laws After Supreme Court Decision; Honolulu is the only county in the state that hasn’t yet finalized new concealed-carry gun rules, leading to a backlog in permit applications”: James Gonser of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report. So if Paul D.

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“Hawaii top court upholds gun laws, criticizes US Supreme Court; Hawaii Supreme Court says it disagrees with U.S. Supreme Court’s Second Amendment rulings; Court upholds laws barring carrying guns in public without a license”

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Hawaii top court upholds gun laws, criticizes US Supreme Court; Hawaii Supreme Court says it disagrees with U.S. Supreme Court’s Second Amendment rulings; Court upholds laws barring carrying guns in public without a license”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

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The morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 10

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In Seven County, backers of a proposed train linking Utah oilfields to refineries on the Gulf Coast ask the justices to overturn a lower court decision blocking the project and narrow the scope of what environmental impacts the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act requires agencies to review. Follow along for our live coverage.

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New York Ruling Still Leaves Door Open for Gun Control: Study

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Additional Reading: Hawaii Struggles to Revise Gun Laws After Supreme Court Decision. At the moment, it’s unclear whether any similar cases to Bruen will be heard soon. A list of members of the panel and the report itself can be downloaded here. James Van Bramer is Associate Editor of The Crime Report.

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New York’s updated concealed-carry law returns to the court

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When the Supreme Court rebuffed the challengers’ effort to again suspend the CCIA last January, the 2nd Circuit grouped the lawsuits together on an expedited schedule for oral argument last March. In December, the court of appeals issued a 261-page decision narrowing the lower court decisions that had put the CCIA on hold.

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Whitehouse alleges “demonstrably false” fact-finding by conservative justices

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But the lower courts, he continued, developed no evidence on that question because of the way the case was presented. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, “changed the goalposts.”. No type of fact-finding, he argued, judicial, legislative or otherwise, “mattered much in those decisions.” Kennedy’s majority opinion, Smith told Sen.

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Ninth Circuit Holds Berkeley’s Gas Ban Preempted by U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act

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In 2021, the District Court ruled that the Berkeley ordinance was not preempted by EPCA , rejecting the notion that EPCA preempts local ordinances that do “not facially address any of those [energy conservation or energy use] standards.” Under EPCA, the U.S. Berkeley has not yet said whether it will appeal the Ninth Circuit’s ruling.