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Old May 19, 2013, 10:51 PM   #37
62coltnavy
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Checked the docket and here is the status. On May 9. 2013, the court announced that it was ready to decide the case without the benefit of oral argument, unless requested by a party. On May 16, the State requested oral argument. Argument will likely be scheduled in the next 45-90 days, and the court will then have 90 days to issue its decision. So we can expect a decision by early fall, perhaps sooner.

The up side of this case is that the odds favor affirmance of the trial court decision. The downside is that last year the Legislature passed a bill that sought to correct the deficiencies of this law. Governor Brown in vetoing the new bill suggested that any new law should await the resolution of the lawsuit--which is pretty smart thinking because if there is a reversal and Brown had signed the new law, there would be competing statutes on the books. Not dissuaded by this obvious logic, the vetoed bill (or some modification thereof) is up for consideration in the Legislature again this term. The big difference now is that there is a veto killing supermajority of gun banning democrats in both houses.
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